%0 Journal Article
%T Knowledge about heart failure and self-care persists following outpatient programme- a prospective cohort study from the Faroe Islands
%A Anna Sof¨ªa Veyhe
%A Jacoba Thomsen
%A Kasper Kyhl
%A Katrin ¨¢ Lakjuni
%A Rasmussen Jan
%A Str£¿m Marin
%A T¨®ra R¨®in
%A ¨¢sa R¨®in
%J International Journal of Circumpolar Health
%D 2019
%R https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2019.1653139
%X ABSTRACT 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
%U https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/22423982.2019.1653139