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Title:
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TELEMONITORING OF USERS WITH PACEMAKERS:
INFORMAL CAREGIVERS AT 5 YEARS AFTER IMPLANT |
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Author(s):
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Antonio Lopez-Villegas1, Remedios Lopez-Liria, Cesar Leal-Costa and Daniel Catalan-Matamoros |
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ISBN:
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978-989-8533-89-0 |
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Editors:
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Mário Macedo |
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Year:
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2019 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Disease Burden, Informal Caregiving, Pacemaker Follow-Up, Remote Monitoring, Telemedicine |
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Type:
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Poster |
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First Page:
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271 |
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Last Page:
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272 |
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Language:
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English |
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Cover:
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Introduction: The use of telemonitoring of pacemakers is limited. Few studies have focused on their informal caregivers
at long-term. To evaluate the burden borne to informal caregivers of patients with pacemakers, five years after
implantation.
Methods: This is a controlled, non-randomised clinical trial. Data on baseline characteristics, workload and time worked
were collected from informal caregivers, five years after implantation of pacemakers. Besides, the Spanish version of the
Survey on Disabilities, Personal Autonomy, and Dependency Situations was used to get information on Clinical and
social characteristics, levels of professionalism, duration and types of care, difficulties in providing care, health status,
economic and job aspects, family and leisure.
Results: Fifty five patients with pacemakers finished the study. Of which, 50 needed to be helped by a caregiver, 18 were
included in the telemonitoring and 32 in the hospital monitoring group. Overall, females represented 96.0% of the
informal caregivers (88.89% in telemonitoring and 100.0% in hospital monitoring group). The mean ages were
63.17 ± 15.92 and 63.13 ± 14.56 years, respectively (p = 0.83) in the groups of telemonitoring and hospital monitoring
group. The majority (88.0%) of the caregivers declared that they had to provide their services between 6 and 7 days per
week (83.33% in telemonitoring group.
Conclusions: The results confirm that there were no significant differences between the informal caregivers regarding to
baseline characteristics, workload and time worked in both groups of follow-up. |
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