Patterns of heart failure symptoms are associated with self-care behaviors over 6 months.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Both heart failure symptoms and self-care are associated with patient outcomes. Although it is thought that symptoms drive self-care, there is limited evidence to support this assumption over time.

Aims

To determine whether patterns of physical symptoms are significantly associated with heart failure self-care over time.

Method

Latent mixture analysis was used to identify subgroups based on physical symptoms of dyspnea, sleepiness and edema (using the heart failure somatic perception and Epworth sleepiness scales). Growth modeling was used to determine if symptom subgroups were associated with self-care behaviors (using the self-care in heart failure index) over 6 months. Sociodemographic and clinical variables predicting the likelihood of subgroup membersh

SUBMITTER: Auld JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6067986 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature