Post-discharge nutritional management for patients with coronary heart disease and frailty : a qualitative study

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BACKGROUND: Frail elderly patients experience physiological function and reserve depletion, leading to imbalances in their internal environment, which increases the risk of coronary heart disease recurrence and malnutrition. However, the majority of these patients, who primarily have a low level of education and lack self-management skills, face difficulties actively dealing with obstacles during the transition period after their discharge from hospitalization. Therefore, it is necessary to understand and discuss in depth the nutrition management experience of discharged elderly patients with coronary heart disease and frailty (ages 65-80 years old) and to analyze the promoting and hindering factors that affect scientific diet behavior during the discharge transition period.

METHODS: Fifteen elderly patients with coronary heart disease and frailty who had been discharged from the hospital for 6 months were interviewed using a semistructured method. The directed content analysis approach to descriptive research was used to extract topics from the interview content.

RESULTS: All participants discussed the problems in health nutrition management experience of discharged. Five topics and ten subtopics were extracted, such as ①Weak perceptions and behaviors towards healthy eating (personal habit solidification, negative attitudes towards nutrition management), ②Lack of objective factors for independently adjusting dietary conditions (reliance on subjective feelings, times of appetite change), ③Personal hindrance factors (memory impairment, deficiencies in self-nutrition management), ④Expected external support (assistance care support, ways to obtain nutritional information), ⑤Lack of continuous nutrition management (interruption of professional guidance, avoidance of medical treatment behavior).

CONCLUSIONS: Nutrition management after discharge places a burden on elderly patients with coronary heart disease and frailty. According to the patients' physical conditions, we should develop a diet support system that is coordinated by individuals, families and society.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:24

Enthalten in:

BMC geriatrics - 24(2024), 1 vom: 19. März, Seite 268

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Yang, Yifei [VerfasserIn]
Gong, Jing [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Binxu [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Chan [VerfasserIn]
Deng, Xintong [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Kejun [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Yingying [VerfasserIn]
Cai, Xusihong [VerfasserIn]
Li, Jingjing [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Jing [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Coronary heart disease
Frailty
Journal Article
Nutrition management
Qualitative study

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Date Completed 21.03.2024

Date Revised 23.03.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1186/s12877-024-04885-7

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM369937864