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Gender differences in self-care maintenance and its associations among patients with chronic heart failure.


ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To identify the gender differences in self-care maintenance and its associations among chronic heart failure patients using the Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills model.

Methods

Two hundred and ten patients (54.0% female) with chronic heart failure participated in this cross-sectional study. Self-care, knowledge of heart failure, social support and illness perception were measured using the Self-Care of Heart Failure Index, the questionnaire of heart failure knowledge, the Perceived Social Support Scale, and the Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire, respectively.

Results

Mean scores for self-care maintenance were 51.4?±?14.8 in men and 55.6?±?14.1 in women (t?=?-2.066, P?ConclusionsSelf-care maintenance were inadequate in both genders with chronic heart failure. Interventions for enhancing social support and self-care confidence in men patients, and strengthening knowledge of heart failure, self-care management and self-care confidence in women patients, may facilitate self-care maintenance.

SUBMITTER: Mei J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6608650 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Gender differences in self-care maintenance and its associations among patients with chronic heart failure.

Mei Jiaojiao J   Tian Yan Y   Chai Xiaohui X   Fan Xiuzhen X  

International journal of nursing sciences 20181201 1


<h4>Objectives</h4>To identify the gender differences in self-care maintenance and its associations among chronic heart failure patients using the Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills model.<h4>Methods</h4>Two hundred and ten patients (54.0% female) with chronic heart failure participated in this cross-sectional study. Self-care, knowledge of heart failure, social support and illness perception were measured using the Self-Care of Heart Failure Index, the questionnaire of heart failure knowl  ...[more]

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