Self-Care Status and It's Related Factors in Patients with Heart Failure

Heart failure as one of the most common chronic diseases in the world imposes high costs on health systems. There are several strategies to control heart failure which self-care is one of them. The present study was conducted to determine the status of self-care and it’s effective factors in patients with heart failure.
This study was a descriptive- analytic study to investigate the status of self-care in 248 patients with heart failure who referred in 2016 to Heshmat medical center in Rasht. Samples were selected among patients with inclusion criteria by a gradual sampling. Data gathering tools were demographic questionnaire and information related to the disease and self-care index of heart failure. Data analyses were performed using descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA and Pearson correlation coefficient tests by the software SPSS version 21.
The mean and standard deviation of self- care score was 44.26±13.13 which only 4.4% of patients had desirable self-care behavior. Most desirable Status of self-care was related to the subscale of self-care management. There was a significant relationship between self-care with age (p Since most research participants had undesirable self-care, it is recommended that nurses pay attention to the self-care predictive factors in care and education programs for patients with heart failure.