Leonie Klompstra, Eva Hägglund, Tiny Jaarsma, Naoko P Kato, Anna Strömberg
{"title":"Effects of exergaming and yoga on exercise capacity and physical and mental health in heart failure patients: a randomized sub-study.","authors":"Leonie Klompstra, Eva Hägglund, Tiny Jaarsma, Naoko P Kato, Anna Strömberg","doi":"10.1093/eurjcn/zvae155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjcn/zvae155","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims: </strong>This study aimed to explore effects of exergaming and medical yoga on exercise capacity, fatigue, shortness of breath, health-related quality of life, depression, and anxiety in patients with heart failure.</p><p><strong>Methods and results: </strong>A randomized sub-study with a 3-month intervention and outcomes measures at baseline, 3, 6, and 12 months. Participants were recruited from heart failure clinics in Sweden. Treatment effects in change of outcomes were tested in an analysis of mixed-effects models with repeated measures. Change in outcomes was the dependent variable. The independent fixed-effect parameters were treatment group, time, and the interaction between treatment group and time.In total, 104 patients (37% women, mean age 71 ± 12, 48% in New York Heart Association Class II and 42% in III) were randomized to exergaming (n = 35), medical yoga (n = 33), or an active control group (n = 36). No statistically significant differences were found between these three groups on any of the outcome measures. Exergaming significantly improved exercise capacity, fatigue, shortness of breath, and physical health-related quality of life and medical yoga improved symptoms of fatigue and emotional health-related quality of life. The control group did not change on the exercise capacity, symptoms, health-related quality of life, or depressive or anxiety symptoms. The well-being score in patients in the control group significantly decreased at 3 months.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Both exergaming and medical yoga demonstrated positive impacts on outcomes when compared with a control group. Exergaming, characterized by its elevated physical intensity, exerted effects primarily on physical health, while medical yoga, as a mind-body intervention, exhibited influences on emotional well-being.</p><p><strong>Registration: </strong>ClinicalTrial.gov: NCT01785121.</p>","PeriodicalId":93997,"journal":{"name":"European journal of cardiovascular nursing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142916683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zekun Bian, Bin Shang, Caifeng Luo, Fei Lv, Weiyi Sun, Yijing Gong, Jun Liu
{"title":"Exploring symptom clusters and core symptoms during the vulnerable phase in patients with chronic heart failure: a network-based analysis.","authors":"Zekun Bian, Bin Shang, Caifeng Luo, Fei Lv, Weiyi Sun, Yijing Gong, Jun Liu","doi":"10.1093/eurjcn/zvae152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjcn/zvae152","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims: </strong>To construct a symptom network of chronic heart failure patients in the vulnerable period and identify core symptoms and bridge symptoms between different symptom clusters.</p><p><strong>Methods and results: </strong>A convenience sampling method was used to select 402 patients with chronic heart failure within 3 months after discharge from the cardiology departments of two tertiary-level A hospitals in Zhenjiang City, and symptom-related entries of the Minnesota living with heart failure questionnaire (MLHFQ) were used to conduct the survey. Symptom networks were constructed using the R language. The constructed symptom network was structurally stable, and the correlation stability coefficient was 0.595. In the network, 'depression' (MLHFQ9), 'dyspnoea on exertion' (MLHFQ3), and 'worry' (MLHFQ7) are the core symptoms. 'Cognitive problems' (MLHFQ8), 'sleep difficulties' (MLHFQ4), and 'fatigue' (MLHFQ6) are bridge symptoms connecting the emotional-cognitive and somatic symptom clusters. In the network comparison test, there were no significant differences in symptom networks between patients of different genders and places of residence.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>'Depression' and 'increased need to rest' are the core and most severe symptoms, respectively, in the vulnerable phase of chronic heart failure, and 'cognitive problems' is the most important bridge symptom. Clinical caregivers can build a precise intervention programme based on the core and bridge symptoms and focus on the emotional and cognitive symptom clusters, in order to improve the efficacy of symptom management during the vulnerable period in patients with chronic heart failure.</p>","PeriodicalId":93997,"journal":{"name":"European journal of cardiovascular nursing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142916687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Class 1, Level A: that's the recommendation for transitional care in young people with heart disease.","authors":"Philip Moons","doi":"10.1093/eurjcn/zvae160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjcn/zvae160","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93997,"journal":{"name":"European journal of cardiovascular nursing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142916669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Minna Lahtinen, Pirjo Kaakinen, Miia M Jansson, Karoliina Paalimäki-Paakki, Mari Virtanen, Heli Kerimaa, Kirsi Kivelä, Anne Oikarinen, Mira Rajala, Krista Hylkilä, Maria Kääriäinen
{"title":"Effect of interactive digital counselling on risk factors and lifestyle in patients with coronary artery disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis.","authors":"Minna Lahtinen, Pirjo Kaakinen, Miia M Jansson, Karoliina Paalimäki-Paakki, Mari Virtanen, Heli Kerimaa, Kirsi Kivelä, Anne Oikarinen, Mira Rajala, Krista Hylkilä, Maria Kääriäinen","doi":"10.1093/eurjcn/zvae154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjcn/zvae154","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims: </strong>Digital counselling has gained paramount importance for coronary artery disease (CAD) patients' treatment in recent years. It has been shown to provide a multitude of benefits, including improved risk factors and enhanced lifestyles. No previous reviews have emphasized the interactiveness of digital counselling. Consequently, the aim of this review is to determine whether interactive two-way digital counselling can provide effective secondary prevention as alternative or adjunct care compared with usual care, where patients visit a cardiac clinic and obtain verbal information and written recommendations of the risk factors without a digital intervention.</p><p><strong>Methods and results: </strong>Studies that implemented digital interventions in patient counselling among CAD patients were identified by searching 10 electronic databases at the end of August 2022 and updated on 15 December 2023. The Joanna Briggs Institution (JBI) protocol was used for screening, quality assessment, data extraction, and meta-analysis. In total, 15 papers were identified that reported the effect of interactive digital counselling on risk factors and lifestyle changes in CAD patients. The results of the meta-analyses had neutral pre-defined outcomes and did not show any effect on cardiovascular risk factors or lifestyle changes.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>There is a need for better descriptions of the content and delivery of interactive digital interventions in studies. In the future, digital interventions should be designed not only to focus on patient, but to incorporate social support, peer groups, and interactive tools on a digital platform. Social support has proved to be important in terms of adherence to treatment.</p><p><strong>Registration: </strong>PROSPERO CRD42021247315.</p>","PeriodicalId":93997,"journal":{"name":"European journal of cardiovascular nursing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142916670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sara Tavares, Norma Caples, Mairead Lehane, Faye Forsyth
{"title":"Surgically based therapies in heart failure: implications for patients and nursing practice.","authors":"Sara Tavares, Norma Caples, Mairead Lehane, Faye Forsyth","doi":"10.1093/eurjcn/zvae151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjcn/zvae151","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93997,"journal":{"name":"European journal of cardiovascular nursing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142916691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emma Hag, Maria Bäck, Peter Henriksson, John Wallert, Claes Held, Andreas Stomby, Margret Leosdottir
{"title":"Associations between cardiac rehabilitation structure and processes and dietary habits after myocardial infarction: a nationwide registry study.","authors":"Emma Hag, Maria Bäck, Peter Henriksson, John Wallert, Claes Held, Andreas Stomby, Margret Leosdottir","doi":"10.1093/eurjcn/zvae147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjcn/zvae147","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims: </strong>Improved dietary habits are important for successful secondary prevention after myocardial infarction (MI), with counselling and support on healthy dietary habits constituting a cornerstone of cardiac rehabilitation (CR). However, there is limited knowledge on how to optimize CR organization to motivate patients to adopt healthy dietary habits. We aimed to explore associations between CR programme structure, processes, and self-reported dietary habits 1 year post-MI.</p><p><strong>Methods and results: </strong>Organizational data from 73 Swedish CR centres and patient-level data from 5248 CR patients were analysed using orthogonal partial least squares discriminant analysis to identify predictors for healthy dietary habits. Variables of importance for the projection (VIP) values exceeding 0.80 were considered meaningful. Key predictors included the CR centre having a medical director [VIP (95% confidence interval)] [1.86 (1.1-2.62)], high self-reported team spirit [1.63 (1.29-1.97)], nurses have formal training in counselling methods [1.20 (0.75-1.65)], providing discharge information on risk factors [2.23 (1.82-2.64)] and lifestyle [1.81 (1.31-2.31)], time dedicated to patient interaction during follow-up [1.60 (0.80-2.40)], and centres aiming for patients to have the same nurse throughout follow-up [1.54 (1.17-1.91)]. The more positive predictors a CR centre reported to follow, the further improvement in patient-level dietary habits, were analysed by multivariable regression analysis [odds ratio for each additional positive predictor reported 1.03 (1.02-1.05), P < 0.001].</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Several variables related to CR structure and processes were identified as predictors for patients reporting healthier dietary habits. These findings offer guidance for CR centres in resource allocation and optimizing patient benefits of CR attendance.</p>","PeriodicalId":93997,"journal":{"name":"European journal of cardiovascular nursing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142916668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Binu Koirala, Chitchanok Benjasirisan, Arum Lim, Robyn Moore, Cheryl R Dennison Himmelfarb, Patricia M Davidson
{"title":"Experienced-based co-design for cardiovascular and chronic disease research.","authors":"Binu Koirala, Chitchanok Benjasirisan, Arum Lim, Robyn Moore, Cheryl R Dennison Himmelfarb, Patricia M Davidson","doi":"10.1093/eurjcn/zvae129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjcn/zvae129","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The participatory co-design method has received significant attention recently. Experience-based co-design is an approach that enables patients (service users) and healthcare providers (service delivers) to co-design services and care pathways in partnership to improve health outcomes based on their experience. Traditionally, it was used as a quality improvement technique. Yet, it is a valuable participatory research design that can help improve health outcomes and be applied in nursing research. This paper will discuss its application in research among people living with cardiovascular multimorbidity and its practicalities, usability, and impact on cardiovascular and chronic disease research and models of care.</p>","PeriodicalId":93997,"journal":{"name":"European journal of cardiovascular nursing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142916685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maria Hee Jung Park Frausing, Christoffer Tobias Witt, István Bakos, Erzsébet Horváth-Puhó, Brian Bridal Løgstrup, Hans Eiskjær, Jens Cosedis Nielsen, Rikke Elmose Mols
{"title":"Association between socioeconomic position and discontinuation of pharmacotherapy for heart failure after cardiac resynchronization therapy.","authors":"Maria Hee Jung Park Frausing, Christoffer Tobias Witt, István Bakos, Erzsébet Horváth-Puhó, Brian Bridal Løgstrup, Hans Eiskjær, Jens Cosedis Nielsen, Rikke Elmose Mols","doi":"10.1093/eurjcn/zvae083","DOIUrl":"10.1093/eurjcn/zvae083","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims: </strong>Pharmacological therapy remains a cornerstone in heart failure (HF) treatment despite the implantation of a cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) device. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between (i) drug discontinuation and (ii) long-term adherence to HF pharmacotherapy after CRT implantation and socioeconomic position and multimorbidity.</p><p><strong>Methods and results: </strong>We conducted a registry-based cohort study including all patients who underwent a first-time CRT implantation at Aarhus University Hospital from 2000 to 2017. Heart failure pharmacotherapy included beta-blockers (BBs), renin-angiotensin system inhibitors [angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor (ACEI)/angiotensin II receptor blocker (ARB)], and mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (MRAs). Patients were identified using the Danish Pacemaker and International Classification for Disease Registry, and information about medication and comorbidities was obtained through linkage to the Danish health registries. We identified 2007 patients, of whom 1880 (94%) were eligible for inclusion. The cumulative incidence of drug discontinuation at 10 years was 6% [95% confidence interval (CI) 5-8%] for BB, 10% (95% CI 9-12%) for ACEI/ARB, and 24% (95% CI 20-27%) for MRAs. Living alone was associated with higher BB discontinuation rates [hazard ratio (HR) 1.83, 95% CI 1.20-2.79], whereas patients with multimorbidity were more likely to discontinue ACEI/ARB (HR 1.92, 95% CI 1.33-2.80) and MRA therapy (HR 1.51, 95% CI 1.10-2.09). Income and educational level did not influence drug discontinuation rates, and similar adherence patterns were observed across all strata of socioeconomic position and multimorbidity.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>In patients with CRTs, drug discontinuation rates were low, and adherence to HF pharmacotherapy was comparable regardless of socioeconomic position. Living alone and multimorbidity were associated with the discontinuation of specific HF drugs.</p>","PeriodicalId":93997,"journal":{"name":"European journal of cardiovascular nursing","volume":" ","pages":"925-934"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141159164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Redefining patient experience: insights from the ATLAS trial on subcutaneous vs. transvenous implantable defibrillators.","authors":"Katia Regina Silva, Roberto Costa","doi":"10.1093/eurjcn/zvae082","DOIUrl":"10.1093/eurjcn/zvae082","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93997,"journal":{"name":"European journal of cardiovascular nursing","volume":" ","pages":"e181-e182"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141263547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}