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Journal Article
Living a burdensome and demanding life: A qualitative systematic review of the patients experiences of peripheral arterial disease
2018
Overview
Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) has a significant negative impact on the quality of life of individuals. Understanding the experiences of people living with PAD will be useful in developing comprehensive patient-centred secondary prevention therapies for this population.
The aim of this study is to identify first-hand accounts of patients' experiences of living with PAD.
Six databases (CINALH, PsyclNFO, MEDLINE, AMED, EMBASE, Social citation index/Science citation index via Web of Science (WOS)) and reference lists of identified studies were searched until September 2017 (updated February 2018). Qualitative studies reporting patients' account of living with PAD were eligible for inclusion. A framework thematic synthesis was implemented.
Fourteen studies with 360 participants were included. Pain and walking limitation were recurrent among the varied symptom descriptions. Patients' ignorance and trivialisation of symptoms contributed to delays in diagnosis. Inadequate engagement in disease understanding and treatment decisions meant patients had poor attitudes towards walking treatments and unrealistic expectations about surgery. Depending on symptom progression, patients battle with walking impairment, powerlessness, and loss of independence which were a source of burden to them. Lack of disease understanding is central through patients' journey with PAD and, although they subsequently began adaptation to long term living with PAD, many worried about their future.
Disease understanding is vital across the illness trajectory in patients with PAD. Although certain experiences are common throughout patient journey, some might be unique to a particular stage (e.g. unrealistic expectation about surgery, or rationale of walking in spite of pain in a supervised exercise program). Given that PAD is an overarching construct ranging from the mildest form of intermittent claudication to severe critical limb ischemia with ulceration and gangrene, consideration of important patient constructs specific to each stage of the disease may enhance treatment success. Systematic review registration CRD42017070417.
Publisher
Public Library of Science,Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subject
/ Aged
/ Analysis
/ Diabetes
/ Exercise
/ Female
/ Gangrene
/ Humans
/ Ischemia
/ Male
/ Medicine and Health Sciences
/ Methods
/ Pain
/ Patients
/ Peripheral Arterial Disease - epidemiology
/ Peripheral Arterial Disease - physiopathology
/ Peripheral Arterial Disease - surgery
/ Peripheral Vascular Diseases - epidemiology
/ Peripheral Vascular Diseases - physiopathology
/ Peripheral Vascular Diseases - surgery
/ Research and Analysis Methods
/ Studies
/ Surgery
/ Walking
