Background Insufficient self-care behaviors, low self-efficacy, depression, and poor illness
perceptions are obstacles to the management of people with heart failure, leading to …

Background Heart failure self-management is essential to avoid decompensation and
readmissions. Mobile apps seem promising in supporting heart failure self-management …

Background and objectives Video animations are used increasingly as patient information
tools; however, we do not know their value compared to other formats of delivery, such as …

We aimed to explore in-depth experiences and emotions of people with heart failure within
the context of self-care. A qualitative descriptive study was conducted using semi-structured …

Background There has been a rapid shift toward the adoption of virtual health care services
in Australia. It is unknown how widely virtual care has been implemented or evaluated for …

Aim. To examine the effectiveness of mobile health application‐based interventions on
mortality, hospitalization rate, self‐care, and quality of life in people with heart failure …

Aim To estimate the effects of nurse‐led self‐care interventions on people with heart failure
(HF). Background Research evidence of the effects of nurse‐led HF self‐care interventions …

Many mobile health (mHealth) application interventions include virtual representations of the
self in varying forms, such as agents, or avatars to initiate health behaviour change. This …

The use of avatars in the psychological treatment of some chronic diseases is in their
infancy, and it represents a growing field of research with many possibilities for innovation …

Many studies of heart failure (HF) self-care have been conducted since the last update of the
situation-specific theory of HF self-care. Objective The aim of this study was to describe the …