Evaluating emotional distress and health-related quality of life in patients with heart failure and their family caregivers: Testing dyadic dynamics using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model.

PURPOSE:1) To compare levels of emotional symptoms and health-related quality of life between patients with heart failure and their family caregivers; and 2) to examine whether patients' and caregivers' emotional symptoms were associated with their own, as well as their partner's heal...

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Main Authors: Patricia Thomson, Kate Howie, Stephen J Leslie, Neil J Angus, Federico Andreis, Robert Thomson, Andrea R M Mohan, Catherine Mondoa, Misook L Chung
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227129