922
Views
10
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

What can be learned from patient stories about living with the chronicity of heart illness? A narrative inquiry

, , &
Pages 216-229 | Received 12 Feb 2014, Accepted 26 Aug 2015, Published online: 28 Sep 2015

References

  • Baker, S. J. (2010). Post-visit phone calls save lives, improve clinical outcomes, and reduce readmissions. Journal of Emergency Nursing, 36(3), 256–259. doi: 10.1016/j.jen.2010.01.011
  • Banerjee, A. T., Faulkner, G., Grace, S. L., & Thomas, S. G. (2010). Cultural factors facilitating cardiac rehabilitation participation among Canadian South Asians: A qualitative study. Heart & Lung: The Journal of Acute and Critical Care, 39(6), 494–503. doi: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2009.10.021
  • Bekelman, D. B., Sydney, M. D., Becker, D. M., Wittstein, I. S., Hendricks, D. E., Tamashita, T. E., & Gottlieb, S. H. (2007). Spiritual well-being and depression in patients with heart failure. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 22(4), 470–477. doi: 10.1007/s11606-006-0044-9
  • Brink, E., Hallberg, L. R. M., & Karlson, B. W. (2005). Readjustment five months after a first-time myocardial infarction: Reorienting the active self. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 53(4), 403–411. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2006.03737.x
  • Carlsson, M., Kristofferzon, M. L., & Lofmark, R. (2007). Striving for balance in daily life: Experiences of Swedish women and men after a myocardial infarction. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 16, 391–401. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2005.01518.x
  • Census of Canada. (2001). Retrieved from http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/English/census01/home/index.cfm
  • Clandinin, D. J., Pushor, D., & Murray Orr, A. (2007). Navigating sites for narrative inquiry. Journal of Teacher Education, 58(21), 21–35. doi: 10.1177/0022487106296218
  • Clandinin, J., & Connelly, M. (2000). Narrative inquiry, experience and story in qualitative research. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
  • Connelly, F. M., & Clandinin, D. J. (1990). Stories of experience and narrative inquiry. Educational Researcher, 19(5), 2–14. doi: 10.3102/0013189X019005002
  • Connelly, F. M., & Clandinin, D. J. (2006). Narrative inquiry. In J. L. Green, G. Camilli, P. B. Elmore, A. Skukauskaite, & E. Grace (Eds.), Handbook of complementary methods in education research (pp. 477–487). Washington, DC: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  • Courtney, M., Edwards, H., Chang, A., Parker, A., Finlayson, K., & Hamilton, K. (2009). Fewer emergency readmission and better quality of life for older adults at risk of hospital readmission: A randomized controlled trial to determine the effectiveness of a 24-week exercise and telephone follow-up program. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 57, 395–402. doi: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2009.02138.x
  • Davidson, P. M., Daly, J., Hancock, K., Chang, E., Moser, D., & Cockburn, J. (2003). Perceptions and experiences of heart disease: A literature review and identification of a research agenda in older women. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 2, 255–264. doi: 10.1016/S1474-5151(03)00056-2
  • Davidson, P. M., DiGiacomo, M., & McGrath, S. J. (2011). The feminization of aging: How will this impact on health outcomes and services? Health Care for Women International, 32, 1031–1045. doi: 10.1080/07399332.2011.610539
  • Dickstein, K., Cohen-Solal, A., Filippatos, G., McMurray, J. J. V., Ponikowski, P., Poole-Wilson, P. A., … Swedberg, K. (2008). ESC guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure. European Heart Journal, 29(24), 2388–2442.
  • Ebrahimi, Z., Wilhelmson, K., Dea Moore, C., & Jakobsson, A. (2012). Frail elder's experiences with and perceptions of health. Qualitative Health Research, 22(11), 1513–1523. doi: 10.1177/1049732312457246
  • Enguidanos, S., Gibbs, N., & Jamison, P. (2012). From hospital to home: A brief nurse practitioner intervention for vulnerable older adults. Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 38(3), 40–50. doi: 10.3928/00989134-20120116-01
  • Galdas, P. M., & Kang, H. B. K. (2010). Punjabi Sikh patients’ cardiac rehabilitation experiences following myocardial infarction: A qualitative analysis. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 19, 3134–3142. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2010.03430.x
  • Goffman, E. (1959). The presentation of self in everyday life. New York: Anchor books.
  • Greenwald, J. L., & Jack, B. W. (2009). Preventing the preventable: Reducing hospitalization through coordinated patient-centered discharge process. Professional Case Management, 14(3), 135–140. doi: 10.1097/NCM.0b013e318198d4e1
  • Grewal, S., Bottorff, J. L., & Hilton, B. A. (2005). The influence of family on immigrant South Asian women's health. Journal of Family Nursing, 11, 242–263. doi: 10.1177/1074840705278622
  • Gupta, M., Singh, N., & Verma, S. (2006). South Asians and cardiovascular risk: What clinicians should know. Circulation, 113, e924–e929. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.105.583815
  • Guruge, S. (2007). The influence of gender, racial, social, and economic inequalities on the production of and the responses to intimate partner violence in the post migration context (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
  • Guruge, S., & Collins, E. (2008). Emerging trends in Canadian immigration and challenges for newcomers. In S. Guruge & E. Collins (Eds.), Working with immigrant women: Issues and strategies for mental health professionals (pp. 3–15). Toronto, ON: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.
  • Hauptman, P. J., Swindle, J., Burroughs, T. E., & Schnitzler, M. A. (2008). Resource utilization in patients hospitalized with heart failure: Insights from a contemporary national hospital database. American Heart Journal, 155(6), 978–985. doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2008.01.015
  • Hawkins, A. H. (1999a). Reconstructing illness: Studies in pathography. West Lafayette, IA: Purdue University Press.
  • Hawkins, A. H. (1999b). Pathography: Patient narratives of illness. Western Journal of Medicine, 171(2), 127–129.
  • He, M. F. (2000). A river forever flowing: Cross-cultural lives and identities in the multicultural landscape. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.
  • Howard, A. F., Bottorff, J. L., Balneaves, L. G., & Grewal, S. K. (2007). Punjabi immigrant women's breast cancer stories. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 9, 269–279. doi: 10.1007/s10903-007-9044-z
  • Hyman, I. (2007). Immigration and health: Reviewing evidence of the healthy immigrant effect in Canada. Toronto, ON: Joint Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement-Toronto.
  • Johnson, K. (2000). Use of telephone follow-up for post-cardiac surgery patients. Intensive and Critical Care Nursing, 16(3), 144–150. doi: 10.1054/iccn.2000.1478
  • Leininger, M. (2007). Theoretical questions and concerns: Response from the theory of culture care diversity and universality perspective. Nursing Science Quarterly, 20(1), 9–13. doi: 10.1177/0894318406296784
  • Lim, L. L., & Ng, T. P. (2010). Living alone, lack of a confidant and psychological well-being of elderly women in Singapore: The mediating role of loneliness. Asia-Pacific Psychiatry, 2(1), 33–40. doi: 10.1111/j.1758-5872.2009.00049.x
  • Lindsay, G., Cross, N., & Ives-Baine, L. (2012). Narratives of neonatal intensive care unit nurses: Experience with end-of-life care. Illness, Crisis & Loss, 20(3), 239–253. doi: 10.2190/IL.20.3.c
  • Lindsay, G., & Schwind, J. K. (May 2014). Arts-informed Narrative Inquiry: Constructing person-centred care. Retrieved from www.theartofexperience.ca (website © 2014)
  • Madhavi, A. V. P., Guruge, S., Schwind, J., & Schindel Martin, L. (2014). Exploring the experiences of loneliness among older Sinhalese immigrant women in Canada. Perspectives, 37(1), 6–14.
  • Mathews, R., & Zachariah, R. (2008). Coronary heart disease in South Asian immigrants: Synthesis of research and implications for health promotion and prevention in nursing practice. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 19(2), 292–299. doi: 10.1177/1043659608317448
  • Morrison, L., Guruge, S., & Snarr, K. A. (1999). Sri Lankan Tamil immigrants in Toronto: Gender, marriage patterns, and sexuality. In G. A. Kelson & D. L. DeLaet (Eds.), Gender and immigration (pp. 144–162). London: Macmillan Press.
  • Moser, D. K. (2007). The rest of life: Impact of anxiety on cardiac patients. American Journal of Critical Care, 16(4), 361–369.
  • Phillion, J., He, M. F., & Connelly, F. M. (2005). Narrative and experience in multicultural education. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  • Plach, S. K., & Heidrich, S. M. (2001). Women's perceptions of their social roles after heart surgery and coronary angioplasty. Heart & Lung: The Journal of Acute and Critical Care, 30(2), 117–127. doi: 10.1067/mhl.2001.113561
  • Polanyi, M. (1966/2009). The Tacit Dimension. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
  • Public Health Agency of Canada. (2009). Tracking heart disease and stroke in Canada: Report highlights. Retrieved from http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/2009/cvd-avc/report-rapport-eng.php
  • Rajadurai, J., Lopez, E. A., Rahajoe, A. U., Goh, P. P., Uboldejpracharak, Y., & Zambahari, R. (2012). Women's cardiovascular health: Perspectives from South-East Asia. Nature Reviews Cardiology, 9, 464–477. doi: 10.1038/nrcardio.2012.59
  • Schwind, J. K. (2003). Reflective process in the study of illness stories as experienced by three nurse-teachers. Reflective Practice, 4(1), 19–32. doi: 10.1080/1462394032000053521
  • Schwind, J. K. (2004). When nurse-teachers become ill: A narrative inquiry into the personal illness experience of three nurse-teachers (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). OISE/University of Toronto, ON, Canada.
  • Schwind, J. K. (2008). Accessing humanness: From experience to research, from classroom to praxis. In J. K. Schwind & G. M. Lindsay (Eds.), From experience to relationships: Reconstructing ourselves in education and healthcare (pp. 77–94). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
  • Schwind, J. K. (2014). Narrative reflective process: Giving voice to experience of illness. In C. McLean (Ed.), Creative arts in humane medicine (pp. 125–140). Edmonton, AL: Brush Education.
  • Schwind, J. K., Cameron, D., Franks, J., Graham, C., & Robinson, T. (2012). Engaging in narrative reflective process to fine tune Self-as-Instrument of Care. Reflective Practice, 13(2), 223–235. doi:10.1080/14623943.2011.626030. 1–13, iFirstArticle
  • Schwind, J. K., Lindsay, G., Coffey, S., Morrison, D., & Mildon, B. (2014). Opening the black-box of person-centred care: An arts-informed narrative inquiry into mental health education and practice. Nurse Education Today, Special Issue NET 2013, 34(8), 1167–1171.doi:10.1016/j.nedt.2014.04.010
  • Schwind, J. K., Santa Mina, E., Metersky, K., & Patterson, E. (2015). Using the Narrative Reflective Process to explore how students learn about caring in their nursing program: An arts-informed Narrative Inquiry. Reflective Practice. doi:10.1080/14623943.2015.1052385
  • Schwind, J., Zanchetta, M., Aksenchuk, K., & Gorospe, F. (2013). Nursing students’ international placement experience: An Arts-Informed Narrative Inquiry. Reflective Practice, 14(6), 705–716. doi:10.1080/14623943.2013.810619
  • Todero, C. M., La Framboise, L. M., Zimmerman, L. M. (2002). Symptom status and quality-of-life outcomes of home-based disease management program for heart failure patients. Outcomes Management, 6(4), 161–168.
  • Vuksan, V., Devansen, S., Teo, K. K., Montague, P. A., Kelemen, L., Yi, C., … McQueen, M. (2000). Differences in risk factors, atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease between ethnic groups in Canada: The study of health assessment and risk in ethnic groups (SHARE). Lancet, 356(9226), 279–284. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(00)02502-2
  • Wang, W., Thompson, D. R., Chair, S. Y., & Twinn, S. F. (2007). Chinese couples’ experience during convalescence from a first heart attack: A focus group study. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 61(3), 307–315. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2007.04529.x
  • Watkins, L., Hall, C., & Kring, D. (2012). Hospital to home: A transition program for frail older adults. Professional Case Management, 17(3), 117–123. doi: 10.1097/NCM.0b013e318243d6a7
  • Whitsitt, D. R. (2012). Coping strategies and adaptation to coronary artery bypass surgery as experienced by three couples. Heart & Lung: The Journal of Acute and Critical Care, 41, 350–359. doi: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2012.02.013
  • Winawer, S. J. (1998). Healing lessons. Boston, MA: Little Brown.
  • Wong, F. K., Chow, S., Chung, L., Chang, K., Chan, T., Lee, W. M., & Lee, R. (2008). Can home visits help reduce hospital readmission? Randomized control trial. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 62(5), 585–595. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2008.04631.x
  • Wong, F. K., Ho, M. H., Yeung, S. Y., Tam, S. K., & Chow, S. K. (2011). Effects of a health-social partnership transitional program on hospital readmission: A randomized controlled trial. Social Science & Medicine, 73(1), 960–969. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.06.036
  • Yu, D. S., Lee, D. T., Kwong, A. N., Thompson, D. R., & Woo, J. (2007). Living with chronic heart failure: A review of qualitative studies of older people. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 61(5), 474–483. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2007.04553.x
  • Zeilani, R., & Seymour, J. E. (2012). Muslim women's narratives about bodily change and care during critical illness: A qualitative study. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 44(1), 99–107. doi: 10.1111/j.1547-5069.2011.01427.x

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.