Ruth Masterson Creber|Ting Chen|Wei Chao|Christopher S. Lee
Brief Report: Patient Activation Among Urban Hospitalized Patients With Heart Failure
Columbia University|Columbia University|Columbia University|Columbia University
patient activation influences patients ability meaningfully engage critical heart failure selfcare purpose study identify whether patient activation associated patientreported health outcomes urban racially diverse inpatient sample patients heart failurewe prospectively recruited patients heart failure hospitalized urban academic medical center october 2016 may 2017 measured patient activation physical affective symptoms physical function selfcare perceived control selfefficacy differences patientreported health outcomes low high activation groups compared use linear regression models adjusting age sex education left ventricular ejection fraction new york heart association functional classificationa total 96 patients completed study mean age 57 124 39 identified black 35 latino 35 female 50 reported enough income make ends meet based 4 levels activation defined patient activation measure13 22 patients reported disengaged overwhelmed 14 becoming aware still struggling 39 taking action 26 maintaining behaviors pushing higher patient activation associated better applied cognitive abilities selfcare behaviors perceived control selfefficacypatient activation easily measured hospitalized patients heart failure associated clinically meaningful patientreported health outcomes