This longitudinal study describes the heart failure (HF) patient's perceived benefits and barriers to self-care during hospitalization, 1 week, and 1 month after hospitalization. Seventy-eight patients with acute HF completed the Health Belief Scales to determine the greatest benefits and barriers to self-care at each time point. Findings suggest that early benefits to performing self-care include reducing symptoms and improving quality of life. Later benefits focus more on promoting health. Barriers to self-care include forgetfulness and knowledge deficits about self-care behaviors. At 1 month, 15.1% to 48.5% patients reported that monitoring increases worry about HF. Home care clinicians can promote self-care through education and skills training.
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 October 2014.
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