Key result
HF education and wellbeing programme linked to improved anxiety, depression, and self-efficacy.
Why the study?
Maximising the capacity of heart failure patients for self-management is essential, and effective mechanisms to achieve this need to be identified.
Observational
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Patient and caregiver feedback supports programme potential in practice; leaves open efficacy in prospective trials.
Heart failure is a complex clinical syndrome and a heavy burden to both patients and the healthcare system. Maximising the capacity of patients for self-management is essential, and it is important to identify effective and efficient mechanisms for achieving this. In a collaboration between heart failure nursing and clinical health psychology, an education and wellbeing programme was developed for this purpose and delivered in Ceredigion, Mid Wales. Topics covered within the programme included self-monitoring, healthy lifestyle, behaviour change, and psychological distress. Comparisons of anxiety, depression, and self-efficacy measures pre- and post-group attendance indicated that this programme successfully influenced factors that are known to contribute to self-management. Clinical implications and limitations of the evaluation are discussed.
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Herrick et al. (2020) conducted an observational in Heart failure. Education and wellbeing programme vs. Pre-group attendance was evaluated on Anxiety, depression, and self-efficacy measures. An education and wellbeing programme for heart failure patients successfully improved anxiety, depression, and self-efficacy measures compared to pre-group attendance.
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