ArticleMedicine2020
Self-care education program improves quality of life in patients with chronic heart failure: A randomized controlled study protocol.
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- Investigating the effect of forum-based training on self-care and life satisfaction in heart failure patients referred to Tehran Heart Center in 2021-2022.Journal of education and health promotion · 2025Article
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- The Effect of Educational Programs on Self-Care Behaviors Among Patients with Heart Failure: An Integrative Literature Review.SAGE open nursingReview
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Abstract
objectiveThe objective of our research is to explore the efficiency of self-care education on the life quality in chronic heart failure (CHF) patients.
methodsThe experiment will be implemented from July 2021 to July 2022 and was granted through the Research Ethics Committee of Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University (423507-037). Eighty patients are included in the study. The recruitment criteria of patients includes: the patients have been diagnosed with CHF by physician on the basis of echocardiography; being stabilized in the acute disease state; in accordance with medical record, the patients have no sensory-cognitive problems. Any reason for not participating in education course (such as not wishing to continue taking part in our experiment or discharge from hospital) is regarded as the exclusion criterion. The primary outcome is the patients' life quality, which is evaluated with Iranian heart failure quality of life questionnaire. Other outcomes include the incidence of hospitalization and total medical cost.
resultsTable 1 suggests the comparison of patients' life quality between control group and study group after receiving the education of self-care.
conclusionThe program of self-care education can be regarded as the proper method to improve the life quality in CHF patients.
trial registrationThe protocol was registered in Research Registry (researchregistry6225).
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