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Palliative Care for Patients with Heart Failure and Family Caregivers in Rural Appalachia: A Randomized Controlled Trial

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Description
Evaluates FamPALcare, a telephone coaching intervention for family caregivers who provide palliative care to patients with heart failure (HF) in rural Appalachia. Provides data on patients' HF-related physical health and depression/anxiety, caregivers' caregiving burden and depression/anxiety, and intervention helpfulness at 3 and 6 months.
Author(s)
Ubolrat Piamjariyakul, Angel Smothers, Kesheng Wang, et al.
Citation
BMC Palliative Care, 23, 199
Date
08/2024
Tagged as
Appalachia · Cardiovascular disease · Hospice and palliative care · Informal caregivers · Mental health · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · West Virginia