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Published on: July 12, 2024
Exploring well-being and self-care from the heart failure patient perspective for sustainable living
Julia Gonçalves Escossia Campos1, Giulia Gazineo Trindade Assis1, Ligia Neres Matos1
1Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Objectives:
to identify well-being and self-care strategies from the perspective of patients with heart failure, highlighting practices that promote a sustainable and healthy life.
Methods:
qualitative, descriptive research, carried out between November/2022 and March/2023, through semi-structured interviews, supplemented by records from physical and electronic medical records, with patients treated at the heart failure outpatient service of a university hospital in Rio de Janeiro, analyzed through lexicographic textual analysis, using Descending Hierarchical Classification.
Results:
after processing the text corpus, six classes were generated, grouped into two distinct thematic chunks (non-pharmacological strategies and practices for health promotion) and (socioeconomic and educational challenges for self-care).
Final Considerations:
it is urgent to take actions that increase health literacy among this population, promoting greater autonomy in self-care and improving well-being. Actions in this sense must consider the social and economic determinants and the individual needs of each patient.
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