The European Heart Failure Self-Care Behaviour Scale provides a validated and reliable tool for investigators to evaluate self-care practices in heart failure management programs.
The instrument is a valid, reliable and practical scale to measure the self-reported self-care behaviour of heart failure patients. It is ready to use by investigators evaluating the outcome of heart failure management programmes that target changes in patients' self-care practices.
Jaarsma et al. (2003) studied this question.