Designing evidence-based self-care interventions for patients with heart failure

Introduction: Heart failure (HF) can be managed effectively with proper self-care. However, HF patients are frequently unable to adhere to self-care recommendations. Previous self-care interventions aiming to enhance adherence have shown limited success, as they are often not theory-based. Thus, this study seeks to develop an intervention manual containing theory-based behaviour change interventions (BCIs) to improve self-care adherence. Methods: Based on a qualitative and quantitative meta-review, behaviours associated with (non)adherence to HF self-care were identified and extracted by two researchers independ…