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<sec><h3>Objective</h3>
<p>To investigate the psychometric properties of the self-care behavior scale in heart failure (HF) patients. The development of self-care behaviors is one of the goals of non-pharmacological care management programs.</p>
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<sec><h3>Methods</h3>
<p>After translating the European Heart Failure Self-care Behavior scale (EHFScBS), validity was assessed through explanatory factor analysis; additionally, reliability was assessed through Cronbach alpha and test–retest. The samples comprised of 120 HF patients admitted to hospitals in Tehran during 2017–2018.</p>
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<sec><h3>Results</h3>
<p>The mean age of the samples was 67.3 ± 14.04 years. Fifty-four patients (45%) were female. All items of the scale had an acceptable factor loading. Cronbach alpha coefficient was 0.72. The intra-cluster correlation coefficient (ICC) was 0.69.</p>
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<sec><h3>Conclusions</h3>
<p>Nurses and clinicians could benefit from the Persian version of HF self-care scale since it would enable them to rapidly assess patients’ self-care behaviors and to evaluate the effectiveness of the HF management.</p>
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Objective
To investigate the psychometric properties of the self-care behavior scale in heart failure (HF) patients. The development of self-care behaviors is one of the goals of non-pharmacological care management programs.

Methods
After translating the European Heart Failure Self-care Behavior scale (EHFScBS), validity was assessed through explanatory factor analysis; additionally, reliability was assessed through Cronbach alpha and test–retest. The samples comprised of 120 HF patients admitted to hospitals in Tehran during 2017–2018.

Results
The mean age of the samples was 67.3 ± 14.04 years. Fifty-four patients (45%) were female. All items of the scale had an acceptable factor loading. Cronbach alpha coefficient was 0.72. The intra-cluster correlation coefficient (ICC) was 0.69.

Conclusions
Nurses and clinicians could benefit from the Persian version of HF self-care scale since it would enable them to rapidly assess patients’ self-care behaviors and to evaluate the effectiveness of the HF management.

Psychometric properties of the Persian version of the European heart failure self-care behavior scale

Department of Nursing, Nursing and Midwifery Faculty

Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Medical Sciences

Frontiers of Nursing

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Objective
To investigate the psychometric properties of the self-care behavior scale in heart failure (HF) patients. The development of self-care behaviors is...

Psychometric properties of the Persian version of the European heart failure self-care behavior scale

Article Category: Original article

Published Online: Apr 13, 2022

Page range: 95 - 102

Received: Aug 31, 2021

Accepted: Nov 23, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/fon-2022-0012

Keywords
heart failure, questionnaire, reliability, self-care, validity

© 2022 Reza Norouzadeh et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Psychometric properties of the Persian version of the European heart failure self-care behavior scale

Article Category: Original article

Published Online: Apr 13, 2022

Page range: 95 - 102

Received: Aug 31, 2021

Accepted: Nov 23, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/fon-2022-0012

Keywordsheart failure, questionnaire, reliability, self-care, validity

© 2022 Reza Norouzadeh et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
heart failure, questionnaire, reliability, self-care, validity