Why the study?
Self-care is fundamental to managing heart failure, but the barriers patients face in practicing self-care needed to be explored.
Patients with heart failure face significant personal, disease-related, and support-related barriers to self-care, highlighting the need for tailored, multidisciplinary interventions to improve patient empowerment and self-care practices.
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Barriers to HF self-care warrant targeted clinician education; leaves open which interventions improve adherence.
Negarandeh et al. (2020) studied this question.
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