Self-care Maintenance of Heart Failure Patients in Babylon Teaching Hospitals

Abstract

Heart failure (HF) is currently one of the major public health problems in world, and its complex and gradual nature often results in reverse proceedings, such as high rate of  rehospitalization and mortality, which could be reduced if there were appropriate self-care, therefore, Self-care is one of the most significant aspects of the treatment of patients with heart failure  through  using special activities to reduce and relieve symptoms and maintain and promote health in patients. Quantitative research, descriptive design cross sectional study Non-probability purposive sample consisted of (100)  heart failure patients who admitted to the Babylon teaching hospitals were selected .The finding out of the study show most of the patient with heart failure have moderate self-care management  a high significant difference between the self-care ability  and their body mass index levels. a significant difference between this disease  and their chronic diseases, hypertension, diabetes mellitus  and duration of disease.

Keywords: Self-care, Management, Heart failure patients, Babylon teaching Hospitals.