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The roles of health literacy and social support in improving adherence to self-care behaviours among older adults with heart failure.
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- Associations between perceived social support, self-efficacy, and health-promoting behaviors in hospitalized heart failure patients: a cross-sectional study.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2026Article
- The effect of health literacy on quality of life in patients with heart failure: the mediating role of self-care confidence.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Article
- Analysis of factors associated with self-care of heart failure patients in outpatient centre.Journal of education and health promotion · 2026Article
- An overview of the association between socioeconomic deprivation and heart failure.Heart failure reviews · 2025Review
- Development and Evaluation of a Patient-Family Caregiver Dyad mHealth Intervention for Heart Failure Self-Care: Quasi-Experimental Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Path analysis of the influence of digital health literacy on self-management behaviour among elderly patients with chronic diseases in rural China.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Health Literacy, Label Comprehension, and Consumer Perceptions of Quasi-Drug Information Among Korean Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2025Article
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- The chain mediating role of social support and yielding coping style between health literacy and symptom burden in patients with chronic heart failure.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2025Article
- The relationship between hope level and self-management behaviors in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a chain-mediated role of social support and disease perception.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Correlates of malnutrition in patients with heart failure: the role of social support.ESC heart failure · 2024Article
- Individual and systems-related factors associated with heart failure self-care: a systematic review.BMC nursing · 2024Article
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Abstract
Aim: To describe the associations between health literacy, social support and self-care behaviours in older adults with heart failure. Design: A cross-sectional descriptive study. Methods: A total of 252 older adults were recruited from a tertiary care hospital from September 2018-February 2019. Structured questionnaires and medical record reviews were used for data collection. Two steps of hierarchical regression analysis were employed to determine the predictors of self-care behaviours. Results: Health literacy ( Conclusion: Health literacy and perceived social support were positively associated with self-care behaviours among older heart failure patients. Our findings can help health professionals develop heart failure self-care interventions to enhance health literacy skills and social support for older adults.
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