Paradox of self-care gender differences among Italian patients with chronic heart failure: findings from a real-world cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

The aim of this study was to critically analyse and describe gender differences related to self-care among patients with chronic heart failure (HF).

Methods and results

A monocentric real-world cohort of 346 patients with chronic HF in follow-up was used for this cross-sectional study. We report data related to the cohort's demographic and clinical characteristics. Self-care was assessed using the Self-Care of Heart Failure Index before patients' discharge. After bivariate analysis, logistical regression models were used to describe the relationship between gender, self-care behaviours and self-care confidence. While men were found to have more than quadruple the risk of poor self-care than women (OR 4.596; 95% CI 1.075 to 19.650), men were also found to be approximately

SUBMITTER: Dellafiore F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6169756 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature