Guidelines on heart failure (HF) stress the importance of lifestyle advice, although there is
little evidence that such recommendations improve symptoms or prognosis. Patients …

Self‐care is essential in the long‐term management of chronic heart failure. Heart failure
guidelines stress the importance of patient education on treatment adherence, lifestyle …

Background The aim of this work was to identify the main contextual factors and processes
that influence patients' self-care of heart failure (HF). Methods and Results A systematic …

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 …

BACKGROUND: Most heart failure (HF) patients have other comorbid conditions. HF self-
care requires medication and diet adherence, daily weight monitoring, and a thoughtful …

Background Self-care is an important element in the comprehensive management of
patients with heart failure. The European Heart Failure Self-Care Behaviour Scale …

Background: Improvement of self‐care behaviour is an aim of several non‐pharmacological
nurse‐led management programmes for patients with heart failure. These programmes are …

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 …

Aim and objective. To examine the interventions used to improve self‐care of heart failure
patients. The specific objectives were to examine the efficacy of interventions to improve …

Self-care is an important aspect of heart failure (HF) management. Information on the
determinants of self-care is necessary for the development of self-care promotion …