Family Barriers Treating Heart Failure Patients

Abstract

This research aims to explore the barriers that families experience in treating heart failure patients. Qualitative design was chosen to get information by conducting indepth interviews on 19 families of heart failure sufferers. Data analyzed using content analysis techniques on verbatim transcripts obtained from interviews manually. The study produced five themes, namely 1) lack of knowledge to be a family inhibition factor in treating heart failure patients, 2) nonpharmacological therapy is given to families to address heart failure complaints, 3) instrumental and emotional support provided by families in treating heart failure patients, 4) attitudes to surrender to God being a family force in treating heart failure patients, and 5) changes in the patient's health condition leading to a change in the role of heart failure patients in the family. The results concluded that families experience barriers in providing instrumental and emotional support due to a lack of knowledge and pessimistic attitudes due to changes in heart failure patients' conditions. The results of this study are expected to have implications for hospital services. Hospital management is expected to provide a particular nursing assessment form of family knowledge about the care of heart failure patients at home and health education for families to be of the interventions in patient care