Evaluating emotional distress and health-related quality of life in patients with heart failure and their family caregivers: Testing dyadic dynamics using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model

• Patricia Thomson ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: pthomson1@virginmedia.com

  Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport, University of Stirling, Stirling, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1039-1714

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• Kate Howie,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, United Kingdom

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• Stephen J. Leslie,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cardiac Unit, Raigmore Hospital, NHS Highland, Inverness, Scotland, United Kingdom

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• Neil J. Angus,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Health Science, School of Health, Social Care and Life Sciences, University of the Highlands and Islands, Inverness, Scotland, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5130-6777

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• Federico Andreis,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport, University of Stirling, Stirling, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1776-3755

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• Robert Thomson,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Medicine, Dentistry & Nursing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6211-962X

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• Andrea R. M. Mohan,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport, University of Stirling, Stirling, United Kingdom

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• Catherine Mondoa,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Cardiology Unit, Forth Valley Royal Hospital, NHS Forth Valley, Larbert, Scotland, United Kingdom

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• Misook L. Chung

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Nursing, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States of America

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