Aims: The purpose of this study was to conduct a systematic review answering the following
questions:(a) what specific activities do caregivers (CGs) contribute to patients' self-care in …

Abstract'Heart failure self care'refers to the practices in which patients engage to maintain
their own health, and to the decisions that they make about managing signs or symptoms. In …

Abstract The Middle-Range Theory of Self-Care of Chronic Illness has been used widely
since it was first published in 2012. With the goal of theoretical refinement in mind, we …

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 …

In patients with heart failure (HF), use of 30-day rehospitalization as a healthcare metric and
increased pressure to provide value-based care compel healthcare providers to improve …

OBJECTIVE: Clinicians worldwide seek to educate and support heart failure patients to
engage in self-care. We aimed to describe self-care behaviors of patients from 15 countries …

Chronic heart failure (CHF) is highly prevalent in older individuals and is a major cause of
morbidity, mortality, hospitalizations, and disability. Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) exercise …

Background Heart failure (HF) self-care is important in reducing clinical events (all-cause
mortality, emergency room visits and hospitalizations). HF self-care behaviors are …

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 …