Why the study?
Heart failure is a common chronic disease and cause of elderly mortality that imposes a high financial burden, making self-care an important aspect of patient management.
In elderly patients with heart failure, women exhibited significantly better self-care behaviors than men, with no correlation found between self-care and ejection fraction or education level.
Low self-care in elderly HF patients warrants assessment; cross-sectional associations leave causal targets and interventions hypothesis-generating.
Background: Heart Failure is a common chronic disease and the cause of the elderly's mortality worldwide. It has imposed a high financial burden on health systems and families. Self-care is an important aspect of nursing and treating such patients. The aim of study was to determine the self-care behavior and its association with demographic and clinical factors in the elderly with heart failure. Methods: The cross-sectional study was conducted on 120 elderly with heart failure, admitted to Cardiology Wards of Khatam Al-Anbia, Shohada, and Payambar Azam Hospitals of Gonbad Kavus County in 2018. The convenience sampling method was used to recruit participants. For data collection the Miller Self-care Behaviour Scale and the elderly's demographic information checklist were used. Data were presented in descriptive statistics, and analyzed using ANOVA, independent t-test and Spearman's correlation test in SPSS ver 16. The significant level was used p<0.05. Results: The self-care scores were 66.088.44 for HF elderly patients. The Self-care Behavior score were 68.251.01 and 64.120.7 in women and men respectively (p=0.004). There were no significant correlations between the elderly's scores of self-care with ejection fraction percentages and education levels.
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