Relationship Between Literacy, Knowledge, Self-Care Behaviors, and Heart Failure-Related Quality of Life Among Patients With Heart Failure

Aurelia Macabasco-O’Connell,Darren A. DeWalt,Kimberly A. Broucksou,Victoria Hawk,David W. Baker,Dean Schillinger,Bernice Ruo,Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo,George M. Holmes,Brian Erman,Morris Weinberger,Michael Pignone

Relationship Between Literacy, Knowledge, Self-Care Behaviors, and Heart Failure-Related Quality of Life Among Patients With Heart Failure

2011

Aurelia Macabasco-O’Connell
Darren A. DeWalt
Kimberly A. Broucksou
Victoria Hawk
David W. Baker
Dean Schillinger
Bernice Ruo
Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo
George M. Holmes
Brian Erman
Morris Weinberger
Michael Pignone

BACKGROUND We sought to examine the relationship between literacy and heart failure-related quality of life (HFQOL), and to explore whether literacy-related differences in knowledge, self-efficacy and/or self-care behavior explained the relationship.

Keywords:

Nursing
Family medicine
Self care
Heart failure
Health literacy
Heart disease
Literacy
Quality of life
Medicine
Gerontology

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