Quality of Life, Depression, and Anxiety in Ventricular Assist Device Therapy: Longitudinal Outcomes for Patients and Family Caregivers.

CONCLUSIONS: This is the first quantitative study of VAD patient-caregiver dyads in modern devices that describes change in person-oriented outcomes from pre-implantation to post-implantation. This work supports the need for future studies that account for the inherent relationships between patient and caregiver outcomes and examine variability in patient and caregiver responses to VAD therapy. PMID: 27811585 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: The Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing - November 1, 2016 Category: Nursing Authors: Bidwell JT, Lyons KS, Mudd JO, Gelow JM, Chien CV, Hiatt SO, Grady KL, Lee CS Tags: J Cardiovasc Nurs Source Type: research