Heart failure self-care, factors influencing self-care and the relationship with health-related quality of life: A cross-sectional observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Self-care helps maintain health, prevents complications and improves the quality of life of patients living with heart failure (HF). Self-care is critical to HF management but has received limited attention in Nepal. Identification of the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics associated with self-care is crucial to tailoring appropriate self-care programs to improve health outcomes including patients' quality of life.

Aims

The aims of this study were to describe self-care including the factors influencing self-care and the relationship between self-care and health-related quality of life in patients living with HF in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Methods

We used a cross-sectional observational study design to measure self-care maintenance, self-care management,

SUBMITTER: Koirala B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7031642 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature