February 11, 2021Health & Research JournalOpen Access

Self-care management, knowledge, self-efficacy for medication and Quality of Life in chronic heart failure patients

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Why the study?

Heart failure management is essential for appropriate therapy and disease knowledge affects self-care, but the associations among self-care, knowledge, medication self-efficacy, and quality of life required evaluation.

Population

122 chronic heart failure patients

Design

Cross-sectional study

Authors

EKElpida KroustalliNational and Kapodistrian University of Athens CPC PapadopoulosUniversity of Cyprus IVIoannis VasileiadisNational and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Discussion

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Implication

May support education-focused strategies in chronic HF; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective trials before practice change.

Structured PICO

Population

122 chronic heart failure patients (102 men, 20 women), mean age 67.1 years, mostly NYHA II (46.7%) or III (39.3%), mean EF 36.6%.

Outcome

Association between self-care management, knowledge, self-efficacy for medication and quality of lifepatient reported

Higher levels of heart failure knowledge and education are associated with better medication adherence, self-care behavior, and quality of life in patients with chronic heart failure.

Limitations

Cross-sectional data makes it difficult to conclude a causal relationship
Self-report measures administered orally could be subject to social desirability bias
Results might be biased by null for self-care behaviour and self-management items

Cite This Study

Kroustalli et al. (2021) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7e4b82d5ea8c1f573ba5a2 https://doi.org/10.12681/healthresj.26094

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Self-care management, knowledge, self-efficacy for medication and Quality of Life in chronic heart failure patients

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Self-care management, knowledge, self-efficacy for medication and Quality of Life in chronic heart failure patients

Discussion

Member takes

Implication

Structured PICO

Limitations

Cite This Study

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