PMID- 28883713
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20220330
IS  - 1177-889X (Print)
IS  - 1177-889X (Electronic)
IS  - 1177-889X (Linking)
VI  - 11
DP  - 2017
TI  - Patients' knowledge of heart failure and their perception of the disease.
PG  - 1459-1467
LID - 10.2147/PPA.S126133 [doi]
AB  - PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to gain a deeper insight into patients' 
      perception of chronic heart failure (CHF) symptoms by analyzing their compliance 
      with nonpharmacological recommendations. PATIENTS AND METHODS: This was a 
      prospective, single-center survey-based registry. Patients included in this study 
      were hospitalized between December 2014 and January 2016 at the 1(st) Department 
      of Cardiology, University Hospital of Lord's Transfiguration, Poznan University 
      of Medical Sciences, and had been diagnosed with CHF at least 3 months prior to 
      inclusion. Participants were divided according to New York Heart Association 
      (NYHA) functional class into mild CHF (NYHA I and II) and severe CHF (NYHA III 
      and IV), and according to age into young (<50 years), middle-aged (50-70 years) 
      and old (>70 years). The survey included information about the patients' sex, 
      age, education, length of the illness and 12 questions about their perception of 
      CHF. This study included 201 patients. The mean age was 58+/-15 years. RESULTS: The 
      younger the patients, the more often they thought that CHF is curable. The 
      patients presenting with severe CHF tended to think that CHF is incurable 
      significantly more often than those with mild CHF. Most of the patients 
      considered loss of appetite, cough and vomiting the least alarming symptoms. 
      Significantly more patients with severe CHF exercised less and reported reduced 
      sexual activity more often in comparison to the mild CHF patients. Most of the 
      young patients reported no changes to their sexual activity, body mass index 
      (BMI) or exercise after diagnosis of CHF. Most of the old patients exercised less 
      than before diagnosis of CHF. Significantly more middle-aged patients reduced 
      their BMI, quit smoking and reported lower sexual activity after diagnosis of CHF 
      in comparison to the other groups. CONCLUSION: Patients need to be better 
      educated about the nature of CHF and the importance of lifestyle changes.
FAU - Plotka, Anna
AU  - Plotka A
AD  - Medical Faculty I, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland.
FAU - Prokop, Edyta
AU  - Prokop E
AD  - I Department of Cardiology, University Hospital of Lord's Transfiguration, Poznan 
      University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland.
FAU - Migaj, Jacek
AU  - Migaj J
AD  - I Department of Cardiology, University Hospital of Lord's Transfiguration, Poznan 
      University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland.
FAU - Straburzynska-Migaj, Ewa
AU  - Straburzynska-Migaj E
AD  - I Department of Cardiology, University Hospital of Lord's Transfiguration, Poznan 
      University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland.
FAU - Grajek, Stefan
AU  - Grajek S
AD  - I Department of Cardiology, University Hospital of Lord's Transfiguration, Poznan 
      University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20170824
PL  - New Zealand
TA  - Patient Prefer Adherence
JT  - Patient preference and adherence
JID - 101475748
PMC - PMC5576702
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - chronic heart failure
OT  - lifestyle changes
OT  - nonpharmacological recommendations
OT  - patient compliance
OT  - patient knowledge
COIS- Disclosure The authors report no conflicts of interest in this work.
EDAT- 2017/09/09 06:00
MHDA- 2017/09/09 06:01
PMCR- 2017/08/24
CRDT- 2017/09/09 06:00
PHST- 2017/09/09 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2017/09/09 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2017/09/09 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2017/08/24 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - ppa-11-1459 [pii]
AID - 10.2147/PPA.S126133 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Patient Prefer Adherence. 2017 Aug 24;11:1459-1467. doi: 10.2147/PPA.S126133. 
      eCollection 2017.