Beatríz González|Josep Lupón|Manel Puig Domingo|Lucía Cano|Roser Cabanes|Marta de Antonio|M. Arenas|Estefanía Luque Crespo|M. Rodriguez|Antoni Bayés?Genís
Educational level and self-care behaviour in patients with heart failure before and after nurse educational intervention
Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol|Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol|Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona|Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol|Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol|Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol|Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol|Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol|Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol|Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol|Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol|Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
selfcare important heart failure hf management may influenced patients educational level assessed relationship educational level baseline selfcare behaviour changes one year nursing intervention hf outpatients attending hf unit three hundred thirtyfive hf patients studied median age 67 years p2575 5775 median hf duration six months p2575 136 hf aetiology mainly ischaemic heart disease 534 median ejection fraction 30 p2575 2437 functional class mainly ii 663 iii 257 educational levels low 173 low 621 mediumhigh 206 patients evaluated first visit baseline one year educational intervention nineitem european heart failure selfcare behaviour scale median patient scores differed baseline 19 p2575 1526 vs 16 p2575 1321 vs 15 p2575 125155 oneyear evaluation 15 p2575 1317 vs 13 p2575 1115 vs 12 p2575 1014 three educational levels respectively statistically significant differences levels p0007 p0001 except low mediumhigh education one year p0057 oneyear evaluation selfcare behaviour significantly improved three educational groups p0001 similar albeit statistically significant magnitude improvement groups selfcare behaviour baseline one year nursing intervention better patients higher education although improvement intervention similar irrespective educational level