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Role of Self-Care in the Patient with Heart Failure

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Optimal outcomes and quality of life for patients with heart failure depend on engagement in effective self-care activities. Self-care is a complex set of activities and most clinicians are not adequately prepared to assist their patients to engage in effective self-care. In this paper, we provide an overview of self-care that includes definitions, the importance of self-care to outcomes, the physiologic basis for better outcomes with good self-care, cultural perspectives of self-care, and recommendations for the improvement of self-care. Promotion of effective self-care by all clinicians could substantially reduce the economic and personal burden of repeated rehospitalizations among patients with heart failure.

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Conflicts of interest: D.K. Moser: has received grant support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH); V. Dickson: none; T. Jaarsma: none; C. Lee: is employed by Oregon Health & Science University; and has received grant support from NIH/NINR, American Heart Association, and NIH/ORWH; A. Stromberg: none; B. Riegel: has received grant support from the NHLBI.

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  1. University of Kentucky, College of Nursing, 527 CON, Lexington, KY, 40536-0232, USA

    Debra K. Moser

  2. New York University College of Nursing, 726 Broadway, #1022, New York, NY, USA

    Victoria Dickson

  3. Department of Social and Welfare Studies, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

    Tiny Jaarsma

  4. Oregon Health & Science University, Mail Code: SN-2N, 3455 SW US Veterans Hospital Road, Portland, OR, USA

    Christopher Lee

  5. Division of Nursing Science, Department of Medicine and Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

    Anna Stromberg

  6. Department of Cardiology, UHL, County Council of Östergötland, Linköping, Sweden

    Anna Stromberg

  7. University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing, Claire M. Fagin Hall, 418 Curie Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA, 19104-4217, USA

    Barbara Riegel

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Moser, D.K., Dickson, V., Jaarsma, T. et al. Role of Self-Care in the Patient with Heart Failure. Curr Cardiol Rep 14, 265–275 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11886-012-0267-9

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