Why the study?
Do self-care interventions improve quality of life, self-care practice, and knowledge in older adults with heart failure?
Do self-care interventions improve quality of life, self-care practice, and knowledge in older adults with heart failure?
Self-care interventions effectively improve health-related quality of life and self-care practices in older adults with heart failure, though the benefits may attenuate over time.
Supports self-care programs in older HF patients; hypothesis-generating for randomized trials to confirm durability and generalizability.
Heart failure self care refers to the practices in which geriatric patients with heartfailure engage in their own care to maintain their own health, and their decisions aboutmanaging signs or symptoms. Objective: The study was conducted to determine the effect ofself-care interventions on quality of life (QOL) of older adults with heart failure. Setting: Thestudy was carried out in the outpatient cardiac clinic in the health insurance hospital (GamalAbd El Naser), Alexandria, Egypt. Subjects: The study subjects included, thirty older adultsdiagnosed with HF for at least 6 months. Tools: Seven measures were used in this study; thesocio-demographic and clinical data structured interview questionnaire, New York HeartAssociation Functional Classification (NYHA), Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE)Scale, Geriatric Depression Scale-Short Form (GDS-SF), Minnesota living with heart failurequestionnaire(MLHFQ), European Heart Failure Self-Care Behavior Scale (EHFSCBS), andDutch Heart Failure Knowledge Scale (DHFKS). Results: There are significantimprovements in both quality of life and self care practice and knowledge after theimplementation of the interventions which decreased gradually 6 weeks and 12 weeks later.However, they still better than before the interventions. Conclusion: Implementation of theself-care interventions proved to be effective in improving self-care knowledge, self-carepractices and health related QOL for the majority of the study older adults.Recommendations: Preparation of an instructional booklet to include the self careinterventions for older adults with heart failure. Further researches are needed such as:Effectiveness of nursing intervention strategies on the QOL of older adults with HF.
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Mageed et al. (2017) studied Heart failure (n=30). Self-care interventions was evaluated on Quality of life (QOL), self-care practice, and knowledge.
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