Effective chronic disease management is essential to improve positive health outcomes, and
incentive strategies are useful in promoting self-care with longevity. Gamification, applied …

Context Disease management interventions for heart failure (HF) are inconsistent and very
seldom incorporate the views and needs of patients and their caregivers into intervention …

Background: Since the situation-specific theory of heart failure (HF) self-care was published
in 2008, we have learned much about how and why patients with HF take care of …

Background Comorbidity is associated with decreased confidence or self-efficacy to perform
self-care in heart failure patients which, in turn, impairs self-care behaviors. Comorbidity is …

Optimal outcomes and quality of life for patients with heart failure depend on engagement in
effective self-care activities. Self-care is a complex set of activities and most clinicians are …

Background Self-care improves outcomes in patients with heart failure; however, no studies
have been conducted on this topic in Italy. Aims We aimed to describe self-care in Italian …

Disease self‐management is a critical component of maintaining clinical stability for patients
with chronic illness. This is particularly evident in the context of heart failure (HF), which is …

Objective Psychological distress has been associated with poor outcomes in patients with
chronic heart failure (HF), which is assumed to be partly due to poor HF self-care behavior …

Background Self-care is assumed to benefit health outcomes in patients with chronic heart
failure (HF), but the evidence is conflicting for health-related quality of life (HRQOL). The aim …

Background: Self-care is at the foundation for living with a chronic condition such as heart
failure (HF). Patients with HF express difficulty with translating self-care knowledge into …