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Does improvement in self-management skills predict improvement in quality of life and depressive symptoms? A prospective study in patients with heart failure up to one year after self-management education

BACKGROUND: Heart failure (HF) patient education aims to foster patients’ self-management skills. These are assumed to bring about, in turn, improvements in distal outcomes such as quality of life. The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that change in self-reported self-management skil...

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Autores principales: Musekamp, Gunda, Schuler, Michael, Seekatz, Bettina, Bengel, Jürgen, Faller, Hermann, Meng, Karin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5309929/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28196523
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12872-017-0486-5