Self-Care Behavior Among Patients With Heart Failure: Relationship Between Sociodemographic and Clinical Variables
Jannaína Gomes de Lima,
Alba Lúcia Bottura Leite de Barros,
Juliana de Lima Lopes
Abstract:Objective: to assess self-care behavior and its relationship with the sociodemographic and clinical variables of patients with heart failure. Method: a cross-sectional and correlational study was conducted in a cardiomyopathy outpatient clinic in São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Data were collected between 2018 and 2020. The sample consisted of patients with heart failure without visual, auditory, or cognitive deficits. Self-care behavior was assessed using the European Heart Failure Self-care Behavior Scale. Sociodemo… Show more
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