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A support group created a caring environment where women with heart disease felt understood, supported, and strengthened by peers and nurse facilitators

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebn.5.4.126

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    Arthur HM, Wright DM, Smith KM.Women and heart disease: the treatment may end but the suffering continues.Can J Nurs Res2001 ;33:17–29OpenUrlPubMed

    QUESTION: From the perspectives of women with heart disease, what is the apparent benefit of a community based communication and psychoeducational support group?

    Design

    Participatory action research.

    Setting

    Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

    Participants

    16 women (46–76 y) who had experienced a myocardial infarction, coronary artery bypass graft surgery, or percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in the previous 6 months or angina in the previous year, and who had no physical or mental health disabilities.

    Methods

    Through a process of discussion, deliberation, and evaluation, participants codesigned a community based communication and psychoeducational support group for themselves that they thought would be beneficial to other women living with heart disease. 2 groups of women (n=9 and n=7) met monthly in 2 hour sessions for 5 months in a local church. A nurse clinician and a nurse researcher jointly facilitated sessions. Women participated in a telephone support …

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    Footnotes

    • Source of funding: Hamilton Community Foundation.

    • For correspondence: Dr H Arthur, School of Nursing, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. arthurh{at}mcmaster.ca