Knowledge about heart failure and self-care persists following outpatient programme- a prospective cohort study from the Faroe Islands
Objectives: Longer life expectancies imply increased prevalence of heart failure. Blittle is known about the maintenance of disease specific knowledge following patient education. Our aim was to investigate if self-care and heart failure knowledge persists at 9 month follow up among patients with he...
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| author | Tóra Róin Katrin Á Lakjuni Kasper Kyhl Jacoba Thomsen Anna Sofía Veyhe Ása Róin Rasmussen Jan Strøm Marin |
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| description | Objectives: Longer life expectancies imply increased prevalence of heart failure. Blittle is known about the maintenance of disease specific knowledge following patient education. Our aim was to investigate if self-care and heart failure knowledge persists at 9 month follow up among patients with heart failure after an outpatient programme in the Faroe Islands. Methods: A prospective cohort study with patients recently diagnosed with heart failure were recruited and evaluated by questionnaire at baseline, after 3 and 9 months using The European Heart Failure Self-Care Behaviour Scale and the Dutch Heart Failure Knowledge Scale. Clinical and demographic information was collected. Results: Seven (15%) women and 40 (85%) men with heart failure and NYHA > 2 were included. There was an overall improvement in patients’ self-care from baseline 25 (8) to 3 months 15 (5) and to 9 months (16 (45); both p < 0.001). Mean knowledge score 10 (3) improved to 13 (2) at 3 months and 12 (2) at 9 months (both p < 0.001). Conclusions: Disease specific patient education is applicable to heart failure patients, which can produce persistent improvements in self-care and knowledge after multidisciplinary outpatient programme. Practice Implications: Multidisciplinary outpatient programmes are beneficial for patients with heart failure and alters disease specific knowledge and self-care. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-98a22392cad84b4b92f88a53bf0d822d2022-12-21T17:49:17ZengTaylor & Francis GroupInternational Journal of Circumpolar Health2242-39822019-01-0178110.1080/22423982.2019.16531391653139Knowledge about heart failure and self-care persists following outpatient programme- a prospective cohort study from the Faroe IslandsTóra Róin0Katrin Á Lakjuni1Kasper Kyhl2Jacoba Thomsen3Anna Sofía Veyhe4Ása Róin5Rasmussen Jan6Strøm Marin7National HospitalNational HospitalNational HospitalNational HospitalUniversity of the Faroe IslandsUniversity of the Faroe IslandsNational HospitalUniversity of the Faroe IslandsObjectives: Longer life expectancies imply increased prevalence of heart failure. Blittle is known about the maintenance of disease specific knowledge following patient education. Our aim was to investigate if self-care and heart failure knowledge persists at 9 month follow up among patients with heart failure after an outpatient programme in the Faroe Islands. Methods: A prospective cohort study with patients recently diagnosed with heart failure were recruited and evaluated by questionnaire at baseline, after 3 and 9 months using The European Heart Failure Self-Care Behaviour Scale and the Dutch Heart Failure Knowledge Scale. Clinical and demographic information was collected. Results: Seven (15%) women and 40 (85%) men with heart failure and NYHA > 2 were included. There was an overall improvement in patients’ self-care from baseline 25 (8) to 3 months 15 (5) and to 9 months (16 (45); both p < 0.001). Mean knowledge score 10 (3) improved to 13 (2) at 3 months and 12 (2) at 9 months (both p < 0.001). Conclusions: Disease specific patient education is applicable to heart failure patients, which can produce persistent improvements in self-care and knowledge after multidisciplinary outpatient programme. Practice Implications: Multidisciplinary outpatient programmes are beneficial for patients with heart failure and alters disease specific knowledge and self-care.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2019.1653139heart failureself-careknowledgepatient educationprospective cohort studyrural areas |
| spellingShingle | Tóra Róin Katrin Á Lakjuni Kasper Kyhl Jacoba Thomsen Anna Sofía Veyhe Ása Róin Rasmussen Jan Strøm Marin Knowledge about heart failure and self-care persists following outpatient programme- a prospective cohort study from the Faroe Islands International Journal of Circumpolar Health heart failure self-care knowledge patient education prospective cohort study rural areas |
| title | Knowledge about heart failure and self-care persists following outpatient programme- a prospective cohort study from the Faroe Islands |
| title_full | Knowledge about heart failure and self-care persists following outpatient programme- a prospective cohort study from the Faroe Islands |
| title_fullStr | Knowledge about heart failure and self-care persists following outpatient programme- a prospective cohort study from the Faroe Islands |
| title_full_unstemmed | Knowledge about heart failure and self-care persists following outpatient programme- a prospective cohort study from the Faroe Islands |
| title_short | Knowledge about heart failure and self-care persists following outpatient programme- a prospective cohort study from the Faroe Islands |
| title_sort | knowledge about heart failure and self care persists following outpatient programme a prospective cohort study from the faroe islands |
| topic | heart failure self-care knowledge patient education prospective cohort study rural areas |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2019.1653139 |
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