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Table 5 Descriptive results of self-care, HF-related health status, health-related quality of life at baseline and after 3 months of patients with heart failure in the intervention and control groups (N = 60)

From: A multicomponent complex intervention for supportive follow-up of persons with chronic heart failure: a randomized controlled pilot study (the UTILE project)

 

Time

Intervention (n = 30)

Mean (SD)

Control (n = 30)

Mean (SD)

Self-care (SCHFI v6.2)a

 Self-care maintenance subscale score

BL

59.06 (16.50)

59.43 (18.30)

FU

69.58 (19.76)

67.38 (19.68)

 Self-care management subscale score

BL

32.58 (26.92)

37.04 (35.05)

FU

70.98 (32.02)

53.99 (31.68)

 Self-care confidence subscale score

BL

78.27 (20.49)

76.29 (18.87)

FU

78.96 (22.23)

86.40 (16.19)

Health status (KCCQ-12)a

 Physical limitation score

BL

52.62 (22.74)

54.91 (24.51)

FU

63.33 (22.52)

61.18 (26.93)

 Symptom frequency score

BL

49.15 (21.27)

40.09 (25.20)

FU

69.06 (25.64)

72.59 (27.41)

 Quality of life score

BL

42.13 (28.41)

48.28 (25.60)

FU

55.63 (29.93)

59.87 (30.78)

 Social Limitation score

BL

56.79 (34.61)

55.06 (34.12)

FU

67.50 (27.82)

59.43 (26.42)

 Summary score

BL

50.17 (20.76)

49.25 (22.19)

FU

63.88 (23.11)

63.27 (23.58)

 Clinical summary score

BL

50.89 (17.96)

47.36 (21.71)

FU

66.20 (21.38)

66.89 (23.05)

 Symptom stability item (item from KCCQ-23)

BL

46.15 (32.92)

43.10 (34.65)

FU

60.00 (18.47)

68.75 (33.92)

Health-related quality of life (EQ-5D-5L)a

 Mobility

BL

2.12 (1.11)

2.45 (1.24)

FU

2.25 (1.02)

2.84 (1.01)

 Self-care

BL

1.26 (0.71)

1.52 (0.91)

FU

1.15 (0.37)

1.47 (0.70)

 Usual activities

BL

2.04 (1.04)

2.38 (1.12)

FU

1.95 (0.83)

2.32 (0.89)

 Pain/discomfort

BL

1.84 (1.90)

1.97 (0.98)

FU

1.90 (0.91)

2.05 (0.97)

 Anxiety/depression

BL

1.81 (0.92)

1.72 (0.88)

FU

1.80 (0.95)

1.84 (1.34)

 Perception of overall health (EQ VAS)

BL

61.70 (16.34)

58.03 (16.13)

FU

66.74 (20.76)

67.22 (21.02)

  1. The average difference between BL and FU (if drawn from the means depicted in this table) is not the same as the difference of the averages at those times (reported in the text). This can be attributed to missing data at FU
  2. BL Baseline, FU Follow-up
  3. a Higher SCHFI subscale scores mean higher self-care with ≥ 70 cut-off for adequate self-care levels; higher KCCQ-12 domain and summary scores mean higher reportable health status; higher EQ-5D-5L scores indicate higher severity/problems, higher EQ VAS scores mean higher imaginable health
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