Daily Checklist: A Visual Aid to Increase Self-Efficacy in Congestive Heart Failure Patients
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Phifer, Leanna Dawn
- Affiliation: School of Nursing
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- Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a chronic condition that requires daily management by those affected. Readmission and mortality rates are high for congestive heart failure patients (Yancy et al., 2013). Additionally, CHF affects the health related quality of life (HRQOL) experienced by those impacted (Yancy et al., 2013). The health care costs for treatment, hospital readmissions, and management of CHF are very expensive and they are a burden to the health care system (Yancy et al., 2013). Current strategies to increase patient self-management of CHF have not proven sufficient to lower the rate of readmissions and the associated costs (Bradley et al., 2012). In addition to the current methods used to decrease readmission rates, the Daily Checklist should be given to patients upon diagnosis of CHF or before discharge from the hospital. The Daily Checklist which includes medications, exercise, daily weight, and sodium (salt) will help patients remember what steps they must take each day to control their CHF, reduce their symptoms, and prevent readmissions for exacerbations. This will increase the patient’s self-efficacy (confidence) in their ability to manage their CHF on their own and activate their motivation to perform self-care behaviors (Shively et al., 2013). The expected outcome of the Daily Checklist is increased self-efficacy and self-management of CHF, decreased hospital readmissions and early mortality, and reduced health care costs associated with managing CHF patients.
- Date of publication
- spring 2014
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- Advisor
- Page, Julie
- Degree
- Bachelor of Science
- Honors level
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- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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