Family-centered care education and heart failure outcomes in Iran

The present review study was conducted to investigate the effect of family-centered care education on outcomes of heart failure in Iranian patients

Heart failure is a complex clinical syndrome that poses a health problem due to its chronic, progressive, and irreversible nature

 A comprehensive searching out scientific databases and search engines including Science Direct, Scopus, PubMed, Google Scholar, and Medline with the keywords heart failure and family-centered care education in both Persian and English language was done to find published studies between 2000 to 2020 Six articles were found based on inclusion criteria and reviewed to report their dominant findings

 Studies on the effect of family-centered care education on outcomes of heart failure in Iranian patients showed that this educational method has yield in effective results

 Family-centered care training improves and promotes self-care and quality of life in people with heart failure Using this training program is recommended as an effective, cost-effective training method without the need for special equipment