PMID- 33141495
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20210301
LR  - 20210301
IS  - 1098-240X (Electronic)
IS  - 0160-6891 (Linking)
VI  - 43
IP  - 6
DP  - 2020 Dec
TI  - The Self-Care of Heart Failure Index version 7.2: Further psychometric testing.
PG  - 640-650
LID - 10.1002/nur.22083 [doi]
AB  - Clinicians and researchers need valid and reliable instruments to evaluate heart 
      failure (HF) self-care. The Self-Care of Heart Failure Index (SCHFI) is a 
      theoretically driven instrument developed for this purpose. The SCHFI measures 
      self-care with three scales: self-care maintenance, measuring behaviors to 
      maintain HF stability; symptom perception, measuring monitoring behaviors; and 
      self-care management, assessing the response to symptoms. After the theory 
      underpinning the SCHFI was updated, the instrument was updated to version 7.2 but 
      it was only tested in the United States. In this study we tested the psychometric 
      characteristics (structural and construct validity, internal consistency, and 
      test-retest reliability) of the SCHFI v.7.2 in an Italian population of HF 
      patients. We used a cross-sectional design to study 280 HF patients with 
      additional data collected after 2 weeks for test-retest reliability. Adults with 
      HF (mean age 75.6 (+/-10.8); 70.8% in New York Heart Association [NYHA] classes II 
      and III) were enrolled from six centers across Italy. Confirmatory factor 
      analysis showed supportive structural validity in the three SCHFI v.7.2 scales 
      (CFI from 0.94 to 0.95; RMSEA from 0.05 to 0.07). Internal consistency 
      reliability estimated with Cronbach's alpha and composite reliability ranged 
      between .73 and .88; test-retest reliability ranged between 0.73 and 0.92. 
      Construct validity was supported with significant correlations between the SCHFI 
      v.7.2 scale scores and quality of life, brain natriuretic peptide levels and NYHA 
      class. This study further supports the psychometric characteristics of the SCHFI 
      v.7.2, illustrating that it can be used in clinical practice and research also in 
      an Italian population.
CI  - (c) 2020 Wiley Periodicals LLC.
FAU - Vellone, Ercole
AU  - Vellone E
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-4673-7473
AD  - Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, 
      Italy.
FAU - De Maria, Maddalena
AU  - De Maria M
AD  - Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, 
      Italy.
FAU - Iovino, Paolo
AU  - Iovino P
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-5952-881X
AD  - Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, 
      Italy.
AD  - School of Nursing, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia.
FAU - Barbaranelli, Claudio
AU  - Barbaranelli C
AD  - Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
FAU - Zeffiro, Valentina
AU  - Zeffiro V
AD  - Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, 
      Italy.
FAU - Pucciarelli, Gianluca
AU  - Pucciarelli G
AD  - Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, 
      Italy.
FAU - Durante, Angela
AU  - Durante A
AD  - Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, 
      Italy.
FAU - Alvaro, Rosaria
AU  - Alvaro R
AD  - Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, 
      Italy.
FAU - Riegel, Barbara
AU  - Riegel B
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-0970-136X
AD  - School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Multicenter Study
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20201103
PL  - United States
TA  - Res Nurs Health
JT  - Research in nursing & health
JID - 7806136
SB  - IM
MH  - Aged
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - Factor Analysis, Statistical
MH  - Female
MH  - Heart Failure/*therapy
MH  - Humans
MH  - Italy
MH  - Male
MH  - *Psychometrics
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - *Self Care
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - heart failure
OT  - psychometrics
OT  - reliability
OT  - self-care
OT  - validity
EDAT- 2020/11/04 06:00
MHDA- 2021/03/02 06:00
CRDT- 2020/11/03 12:51
PHST- 2020/05/03 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2020/08/25 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2020/10/15 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2020/11/04 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/03/02 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2020/11/03 12:51 [entrez]
AID - 10.1002/nur.22083 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Res Nurs Health. 2020 Dec;43(6):640-650. doi: 10.1002/nur.22083. Epub 2020 Nov 3.