the "Level of Resilience" Influencing Self-care in Heart Failure Patients

Institute of Hospitalization and Scientific Care (IRCCS)

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Congestive Heart Failure

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06146803

6079

Details and patient eligibility

About

Adaptation to the new health condition and self-care skills allow people to be able to adhere to the therapeutic treatment in the most correct way possible, but there are many cases in which subjects do not show adherence to it, and for this reason the risk increases to manifest acute complications and also to develop long-term ones

Full description

Primary objective

-Evaluate levels of resilience in subjects suffering from heart failure.

Secondary objectives

• Evaluate the levels of self-care in subjects suffering from heart failure.
• Evaluate the correlation between the level of resilience and the level of self-care;
• Evaluate which characteristics positively influence the level of resilience and the degree of self-care of the person with heart failure.

Consecutive patients suffering from heart failure followed at the Cardiology department of the Agostino Gemelli IRCCS University Polyclinic Foundation of Rome will be included

Enrollment: 300 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Subjects suffering from heart failure;
• Subject aged between >18 years and <90 years;
• Ability to understand the Italian language;
• Clinical conditions that allow the questionnaire to be completed;
• Ability to provide written informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

• Subjects suffering from other forms of diabetes;
• Subjects suffering from serious psychiatric disorders;
• Serious clinical conditions that do not allow the questionnaire to be completed;
• Inability to provide written informed consent.