Association Between Characteristics of Hospitalized Heart Failure Patients With Their Needs.

Introduction: During recent years that life expectancy of heart failure patients has been increased, health professionals put more emphasis on assessing their needs in daily clinical practice. The aim of the present study was to explore the association between characteristics of hospitalized heart failure patients with their needs.

Methods: A sample of 190 hospitalized patients with HF, recruited from public hospitals in Greece, was enrolled in the study.

Development and Validation of a Multidimensional Expectation Questionnaire for Thalassaemia Major Patients.

Nowadays, thalassaemia major (TM) patients are surviving into mature young adulthood; however, no published instrument exists to measure the expectations' dimensionality among older TM patients in their thirties. This study seeks to validate a novel multidimensional expectation questionnaire suitable for TM patients (MEQ-TMP) reaching their fourth decade of life. In order to establish the psychometric properties of the instrument, data analysis was carried out.