Identifying relevant factors for successful implementation into routine practice: expert interviews to inform a heart failure self-care intervention (ACHIEVE study).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adherence to heart failure (HF) self-care behaviours has been found to be effective for alleviating illness symptoms, increasing quality of life and reducing hospital re-admissions and mortality. However, many patients fail to implement on-going self-care into their daily lives. It is therefore crucial to improve the behaviour of HF patients to increase self-care adherence. The aim of this study is to identify relevant factors to successfully implement a complex, theory-based HF self-care intervention into routine practice.

Methods

We conducted semi-structured interviews to obtain key stakeholders' opinions on previously developed behaviour change techniques for enhancing HF patients' self-care behaviours, in order to optimise implementation of these techniques in

SUBMITTER: Herber OR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8211453 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature