Caring for yourself while you care for someone else: a qualitative study exploring the mental and cardiovascular health behaviours of female carers of stroke survivors
These findings suggest that current interventions do not address cardiovascular risk self-management for female carers and provide insight into characteristics of interventions that may increase acceptability and feasibility of interventions to support long-term cardiovascular and mental health-promoting behaviours.
Authors
- Dawn B. Simpson
- Kirsti Haracz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1321-8899)
- Nishani S. Mabotuwana
- Heidi Janssen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8612-0112)
- Alexandra M. J. Denham (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4512-3250)
- Marie‐Louise Bird (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9642-7196)
Institutions
- University of Tasmania (AU)
- Hunter Medical Research Institute (AU)
- Hunter New England Local Health District (AU)
- University of Newcastle Australia (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Disability and Rehabilitation
- Published
- 2024-09-05
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2024.2399229
- Primary Topic
- Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Hunter Medical Research Institute