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Do self-care behaviors moderate the relationship between physical/depressive symptoms and health-related quality of life in heart failure?
Do self-care behaviors moderate the relationship between physical/depressive symptoms and health-related quality of life in heart failure?
Engagement in self-care behaviors moderates the impact of physical and depressive symptoms on health-related quality of life in patients with heart failure.
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Self-care may buffer symptom effects on HRQoL in HF; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before practice change.
In HF, HRQOL is dependent on both the severity of physical and depressive symptoms and the level of engagement in HF self-care behaviors. Future research should consider both self-care behaviors and symptoms when examining patient HRQOL.
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Auld et al. (2017) studied this question.
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