ABSTRACT
Objective:To explore the real experience of decompensated cirrhosis patients and their spouses returning to family dual disease management and to provide a reference for the targeted intervention strategies.Methods:Totally 13 decompensated cirrhosis patients and their spouses admitted in Infectious Disease Department, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University from February 2022 to April 2022 were recruited for semi-structured interviews. Colaizzi 7-step analysis was used to summarize and extract the themes.Results:The final analysis yielded a total of 8 generic categories belonging to 3 categories based on the dyadic illness management theory. These were negative disease perception including disease cognitive bias, lack of complication awareness, negative family management including low self-worth, conflict management, poor management compliance, economic pressure, passive attitude, dyadic health needs to be improved including negative emotional dominance, self-perceived discrimination, communication disorders, intimacy decrease.Conclusions:Decompensated cirrhosis patients and their spouses have negative and resistant psychology in disease perception, management compliance, management attitude, behavior, and so on, clinical medical staff should be aimed at decompensated cirrhosis patients and their spouses on the health education to strengthen disease, guiding role transformation, gives targeted positive psychological intervention, to provide multi-dimensional social support, to improve the negative mood, reduce stigma and improve binary health.