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Symptom recognition in elders with heart failure.

Barbara Riegel1, Victoria Vaughan Dickson, Janette Cameron

  • 1School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 9104-6096, USA. briegel@nursing.upenn.edu

Journal of Nursing Scholarship : an Official Publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing
|May 22, 2010
PubMed
Summary
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Older adults experience greater difficulty detecting and interpreting physiological symptoms like shortness of breath, potentially leading to delayed symptom recognition. This highlights a need for interventions to improve somatic awareness in aging populations.

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Area of Science:

  • Gerontology and Cardiovascular Health
  • Physiological Monitoring and Symptom Perception

Background:

  • Aging is linked to sensory declines, but its impact on internal physiological information processing is less understood.
  • Chronic heart failure (CHF) patients must accurately detect and interpret symptoms for effective self-management.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if aging affects the ability to detect and interpret afferent physiological information.
  • To compare symptom detection and interpretation abilities between younger and older patients with chronic heart failure.

Main Methods:

  • A cross-sectional mixed-methods study involved 29 CHF patients, divided into younger (<73 years) and older (>=73 years) groups.
  • Shortness of breath was induced via a 6-minute walk test (6MWT) and assessed using the Borg scale, compared against trained nurse ratings.
  • In-depth interviews explored patients' interpretation of their symptoms.

Main Results:

  • Older CHF patients demonstrated significantly greater difficulty in detecting and interpreting shortness of breath compared to younger patients.
  • Older patients were twice as likely to report a different perceived exertion level for shortness of breath than objectively assessed by nurses post-6MWT.

Conclusions:

  • Findings support an age-related decline in attending to internal bodily sensations.
  • This diminished ability to process physiological cues may contribute to delayed early symptom detection in older adults.
  • Interventions focusing on enhancing somatic awareness and symptom interpretation are recommended for older patients.