“…Results (Table 2) on HF self-care (composite) scores were reported in thirteen articles. Although some studies used the term ''self-care'' [26,27,33,40,43], other studies used other terms, including ''self-management'' [18,32,39], ''adherence'' [35], ''compliance'' [20,29,36] and ''self-care specific behaviours'' [21]. In addition, eight articles reported results on self-care management [22,25,30,31,33,38,41,42] and ten on self-care maintenance [22,25,30,31,33,34,37,38,41,42].…”