Abstract
Background
Patient activation influences patients' ability to meaningfully engage in critical
heart failure self-care. The purpose of this study was to identify whether patient
activation is associated with patient-reported health outcomes in an urban and racially
diverse inpatient sample of patients with heart failure.
Methods
We prospectively recruited patients with heart failure hospitalized at an urban academic
medical center from October 2016 to May 2017 and measured patient activation, physical
and affective symptoms, physical function, self-care, perceived control, and self-efficacy.
Differences in patient-reported health outcomes between low and high activation groups
were compared with the use of linear regression models adjusting for age, sex, education,
left ventricular ejection fraction, and New York Heart Association functional classification.
Results
A total of 96 patients completed the study (mean age 57 ± 12.4 y); 39% identified
as black and 35% as Latino, 35% were female, and 50% reported not having enough income
to make ends meet. Based on the 4 levels of activation defined by the Patient Activation Measure–13,
22% of patients reported being “disengaged and overwhelmed,” 14% were “becoming aware,
but still struggling,” 39% were “taking action,” and 26% were “maintaining behaviors
and pushing further.” Higher patient activation was associated with better applied
cognitive abilities, self-care behaviors, perceived control, and self-efficacy.
Conclusion
Patient activation can be easily measured in hospitalized patients with heart failure
and is associated with clinically meaningful patient-reported health outcomes.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: August 22, 2017
Accepted:
August 16,
2017
Received in revised form:
August 1,
2017
Received:
May 2,
2017
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