Why the study?
Patients with heart failure rarely engage in adequate self-care, creating a need for greater emphasis on self-care discharge readiness.
Does a predischarge educational program combined with postdischarge follow-ups improve self-care, readmission, sleep, and depression in patients with heart failure?
Population
62 patients with heart failure
Comparison
Tailored education and postdischarge follow-ups vs routine predischarge education
Design
Longitudinal, nonequivalent two-group pretest-posttest study
Follow-up
12 months
Authors
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May improve self-care in HF but not readmissions; hypothesis-generating and requires RCTs before practice change.
Does a predischarge educational program combined with postdischarge follow-ups improve self-care, readmission, sleep, and depression in patients with heart failure?
A tailored predischarge education and postdischarge follow-up program yielded modest, delayed improvements in self-care behaviors but did not significantly reduce hospital readmissions in patients with heart failure.
Chen et al. (2020) studied this question.
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