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- This qualitative study focuses on understanding the experiences and expectations of individuals with long-term mental illnesses and their caregivers regarding cardiovascular disease and its risk factors.
- Four key themes emerged: knowledge about physical health, barriers to improving health practices, factors that promote a healthier lifestyle, and the needs and expectations for better living conditions.
- The study aims to develop a cardiovascular risk reduction program tailored to the specific needs of those with long-term mental illness while also considering the role of caregivers.
Article Abstract
Introduction: This qualitative study based on focus group study aims to identify experiences, expectations, and representations of people with long-term mental illness and their caregivers regarding cardiovascular disease and its risk factors. The aim of this work is to build a cardiovascular risk reduction program for people affected by long-term mental illness.
Results: Four major themes were identified in the corpus: (1) knowledge concerning physical health, (2) barriers to the implementation of better practices, (3) levers towards a healthier life and (4) expectations and needs for a better lifestyle.
Conclusions: This work has provided us with concrete elements for the creation of a cardiovascular risk reduction program for people living with long-term mental illness. The challenges of this program will be to adapt to the needs and expectations of people living with long-term mental illness while facilitating the role of caregivers.
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