Key result
Social support is linked to better heart failure quality of life, mediated by self-efficacy.
Why the study?
Heart failure causes high disability and reduced quality of life, and this study aimed to determine the relationship of self-efficacy and social support with quality of life in these patients.
Do social support and self-efficacy improve quality of life in patients with heart failure?
Cross-Sectional (n=298)
No
Do social support and self-efficacy improve quality of life in patients with heart failure?
Social support directly and indirectly through self-efficacy positively influences quality of life in patients with heart failure.
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May support assessing social support and self-efficacy in heart failure; leaves open whether interventions targeting these improve quality of life.
Background: Heart failure, with a very high disability, leads to reduced quality of life. Variables such as self-efficacy and social support have a very much impact on the quality of life of patients. This study aimed to determine the relationship between variables self-efficacy and social support with quality of life in patients with heart failure. Methods: Participants were 298 Heart Failure (HF) patients of Farabi Hospital in Mashhad. They have completed the Social Support Questionnaire (12 items, Zimet and et al.), Self-efficacy (10 items, Schwarzer and et al.), and the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure questionnaire MLHFQ (21 Rector). Results: Confirmatory analysis method and path analysis showed that the quality of life of patients with heart failure is affected by social support and self-efficacy. Therefore, social support has a positive effect on quality of life. Self-efficacy has also been able to mediate the relationship between social support and the quality of life, as its path coefficient was equal to 0.38. Multiple indices such as RMSEA (0.078) and GFI (0.93) were used to evaluate the model. The proposed model fits the data. Conclusions: It seems that social support directly and through self-efficacy can improve the quality of life of patients with heart failure.
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kashani et al. (2020) conducted a cross-sectional in Heart Failure (n=298). Social support and self-efficacy was evaluated on Quality of life measured by the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire (MLHFQ) (Path coefficient 0.38). Social support positively affected quality of life in heart failure patients, mediated by self-efficacy (path coefficient 0.38; GFI 0.93, RMSEA 0.078).
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