International Journal of Nursing Studies, Vol 77, Pages - 232-242

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Buck, H. G., Stromberg, A., Chung, M. L., Donovan, K. A., Harkness, K., Howard, A.
M., & Evangelista, L. S. (2018). A systematic review of heart failure dyadic self-
care interventions focusing on intervention components, contexts, and
outcomes. International journal of nursing studies, 77, 232-242.
In the above article, the authors throw light on the importance of self-care intervention
that will help in improving the conditions of patients suffering from heart failure. The report
also shows how, when a self-care intervention is followed alone without any help from the
carers results in adverse consequences such as death. Family members suffering from some
kind of dyads influence each other behavior. The authors further tell that there is no self-care
dyadic intervention that has been recently devised. Primary research has been conducted in
the report with nurses who deal with heart failure patients. The results were concluded based
on the previous research that was done where a strict comparison was made between the two.
It was found that patients seemed to improve under the surveillance of a careful person.
However, the authors also took into consideration the fact that dyads need special education
regarding their illness, support as well as guidance. Even the carer should be knowledgeable
about yielding better outcomes.
The article has some strong arguments relating to the illness that is suffered by
people. Many charts are used to put across the message. The authors also urge for future
research that will help in understanding the problem in a better way. However, many medical
terms have been used that makes the article confusing and challenging to understand.
Jiang, Y., Shorey, S., Seah, B., Chan, W. X., San Tam, W. W., & Wang, W. (2018). The
effectiveness of psychological interventions on self-care, mental, and health
outcomes in patients with chronic heart failure—A systematic review and meta-
analysis. International journal of nursing studies, 78, 16-25.

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The authors of the above article talk about the importance of pharmacological
treatment and the change in behavior that is essential in addressing patients who are suffering
from chronic problems. They also talk about the prevention episodes of compensation as well
as hospital readmission. They further recommend that the person taking care of the patient
should consider the health beliefs, experiences as well as the motivational factor that will
help the patient to recover quickly. They pay more attention to the importance of
psychological intervention that will help in bringing positive outcomes. These patients should
be given behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, psychological intervention to
mitigate the problem of chronic heart failure. According to the research that was conducted, it
was found that if patients suffering from chronic heart failure and other syndrome devoted
their time to self-care, then they need not have to visit the doctor frequently. Thus heart
failure patients can go for psychological intervention that will help them to recover from their
disease.
The research has a lot of tables as well as statistics that make the writing credible. The
authors have discussed a lot of intervention programs that might help these kinds of patients,
but again the research is quite confusing. The psychological intervention that has been
proposed by the authors, too, has time and format constraints.
Im, J., Mak, S., Upshur, R., Steinberg, L., & Kuluski, K. (2019). ‘The Future is
Probably Now’: Understanding of illness, uncertainty, and end‐of‐life discussions
in older adults with heart failure and family caregivers. Health
Expectations, 22(6), 1331-1340.
The authors in the paper discuss chronic heart failure and how it can lead to shortness
of breath and reduced quality of life. They focus on the end-of-life discussion that talks about
goals related to the care and at the same time, highlights the preferences of the patients,