Study on self care behavior and its influential factors of chronic heart failure patients
He Xinxin
Xie Xuefeng
Li Renj ie
Abstract：Objective:To describe the status quo of the self care behavior of chronic heart failure patients and to probe into the influential factors of the self care behavior.Methods:A total of 30 chronic heart failure patients from the cardiovascular department of a third grade class A hospital in Guangzhou city were selected and in-vestigated on their general data and self care behavior state by applying descriptive research and convenience sampling method.Results:The self care behavior score of patients with chronic heart failure was 76.83±13. 97 .The influence of age and education level on self care behavior of patients with chronic heart failure was sta-tistically significant (P<0.05).Conclusion:The self care behavior of patients with CHF was at a moderate level.Medical staff should adopt different educational methods and educational contents for patients with differ-ent ages and educational levels to improve their self care ability.
Keywords：chronic heart failureself care behaviorinfluential factor
Publication Date：2016-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 2559-2561 )