Family care and subjective well-being of coronary heart disease patients after percutaneous coronary intervention: Mediating effects of coping strategies.
Li-Xia Liang, Yu Liu, Ya-Jie Shi and 5 others
PMID 35079608WHAT IT FOUND
Patients after PCI who perceived more family care had better well-being.
Coping was linked to family care and well-being: more avoidance or acceptance-resignation was tied to lower well-being.
Key findings
01Perceived family care was positively associated with subjective well-being, while avoidance and acceptance-resignation coping were negatively associated with subjective well-being.
02Coping strategies partly mediated the association between perceived family care and subjective well-being.
03Male and female patients had different subjective well-being scores, with male patients reporting higher scores.
STILL TO COME
How it was doneWhat they foundWhat it means for RNs
Read the rest of this summary
You get three full summaries a month, free, and we do not ask for a card. Search, the TL;DRs and your library stay unlimited either way.
What it does not show
The study was cross-sectional, so it can show associations and mediation patterns but cannot show that family care or coping caused subjective well-being. It was done at one hospital in Liaoning Province, China, and the authors say the results may not apply to other populations. All key measures were self-reported, and the authors note responses may have been beautified, so scores may overstate actual well-being. The paper says 264 inpatients were surveyed but 242 patients were analysed, and it does not explain the difference. Family care was measured only as the patient's perception with the Family APGAR scale, not as observed family behaviour or caregiver-reported care. Family care alone accounted for a small share of subjective well-being variance (R2 = 0.039).
Declared interests
The study was funded by the Scientific Research Foundation of Liaoning Provincial Education Department, China (grant no. LZ2020039). The authors declared no known competing interests.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that nurses can improve subjective well-being after PCI by increasing family care. The study measured patients' perceived family care and coping at one time point, and it did not test any intervention.