Effectiveness of an educational program in nursing in the self-care of patients with heart failure: randomized controlled trial.
Unblinded randomized controlled clinical trial to evaluate the effectiveness of an educational program in nursing (educational meetings, home visits, telenursing and a printed book) in the improvement of self-care behaviors in patients with heart failure was evaluated. Thirty-three people participated in the intervention group and thirty in the control group. At the beginning and at the end of the study (ninth month), Nancy Artinian's Heart Failure Self-care Behaviors Scale was applied to assess the level of self-care. 66.0% of the intervention group versus 26.6% of the control group improved the self-care score by at least 20% (p<0.001). The Number Needed to Treat was 2.5. The findings suggest that the educational intervention has beneficial effects on the self-care behaviors of people with heart failure.
Facultad de Enfermería, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia. mariangelesrodriguezg@hotmail.com
María de los Ángeles
Mde L
Rodríguez-Gázquez
Edith
E
Arredondo-Holguín
Richard
R
Herrera-Cortés
D000368:Aged; D004506:Education, Nursing; D005260:Female; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000451:nursing*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012648:Self Care