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Relationships between activation level, knowledge, self-efficacy, and self-management behavior in heart failure patients discharged from rural hospitals.

  • Van Do
    ,
  • Lufei Young
    ,
  • Sue Barnason
    ,
  • Hoang Tran
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Abstract

Non-adherence to self-management guidelines accounted for 50% of hospital readmissions in heart failure patients. Evidence showed that patient activation affects self-management behaviors in populations living with chronic conditions. The purpose of this study was to describe patient activation level and its relationship with knowledge, self-efficacy and self-management behaviors in heart failure patients discharged from rural hospitals. Our study populations were recruited from two hospitals in rural areas of Nebraska. We found that two-thirds of the participants reported low activation levels (e.g., taking no action to manage their heart failure condition). In addition, low patient activation levels were associated with inadequate heart failure knowledge (p=.005), low self-efficacy (p

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Scholary Output:
Contribution to journal
Article
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Original language

English (US)

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Page 150 (1 page)

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

F1000Research (Volume 4)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 2015

Publication status

Published - 2015

ISSN

2046-1402

Publication IDs

  • PubMed: 26213616
  • Scopus: 84937545054

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4
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17
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79
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1
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0.25
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3
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0.75
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1
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