What do patients know about their heart failure?
| Autor: | Nancy T. Artinian, Willecia Christian, Morris A. Magnan, M. Patricia Lange |
|---|---|
| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice medicine.medical_specialty MEDLINE Health outcomes Education Patient Education as Topic Self help groups Surveys and Questionnaires Ethnicity Humans Medicine Patient participation Intensive care medicine General Nursing Aged Monitoring Physiologic Heart Failure Analysis of Variance Weight monitoring business.industry Racial group Middle Aged medicine.disease Health Surveys Self Care Self-Help Groups Treatment Outcome Heart failure Self care Female business |
| Zdroj: | Applied Nursing Research. 15:200-208 |
| ISSN: | 0897-1897 |
| DOI: | 10.1053/apnr.2002.35959 |
| Popis: | Positive health outcomes for heart failure (HF) patients depend on patient participation in the selection and use of appropriately focused heart failure self-care. To produce a system of heart failure self-care, patients must have an adequately developed fund of highly specialized antecedent knowledge. This research found that knowledge needed to produce heart failure self-care was deficient in a diverse sample of heart failure patients. Low levels of knowledge were especially evident in the areas of heart failure medications, weight monitoring, and being able to recognize the correct definition of heart failure. Although being older and being more highly educated were associated with higher levels of HF knowledge, HF knowledge scores were uniformly low across gender and racial groups. If nurses are going to be instrumental in helping heart failure patients achieve positive health outcomes, creative strategies to provide information and increase the knowledge necessary to produce HF self-care need to be developed and tested. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
| Externí odkaz: |
|
Full Text from ScienceDirect