Trajectory of self-care behaviour in patients with heart failure: the impact on clinical outcomes and influencing factors.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients' self-care behaviour is still suboptimal in many heart failure (HF) patients and underlying mechanisms on how to improve self-care need to be studied.

Aims

(1) To describe the trajectory of patients' self-care behaviour over 1 year, (2) to clarify the relationship between the trajectory of self-care and clinical outcomes, and (3) to identify factors related to changes in self-care behaviour.

Methods

In this secondary analysis of the COACH-2 study, 167 HF patients (mean age 73 years) were included. Self-care behaviour was assessed at baseline and after 12 months using the European Heart Failure Self-care Behaviour scale. The threshold score of ⩾70 was used to define good self-care behaviour.

Results

Of all patients, 21% had persistent poor se

SUBMITTER: Liljeroos M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7272123 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature