• Medicine · Oct 2024

    Pathway analysis of the impact of health literacy, social support, and self-management on frailty in patients with chronic heart failure: A cross-sectional study.

    • Yu Cheng, Qin Peng, Hua Ding, Mengdie Hu, and Chaofeng Li.
    • Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China.
    • Medicine (Baltimore). 2024 Oct 25; 103 (43): e40195e40195.

    AbstractChronic heart failure (CHF) is a significant global health challenge, and frailty is common among CHF patients. Although abundant evidence has revealed significant intercorrelations among health literacy, social support, self-management, and frailty, no study has explored their associations into 1 model based on a theoretical framework. The study aimed to test the Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills Model in a sample of Chinese CHF patients and explore the potential relationships among social support, health literacy, self-management, and frailty. A cross-sectional study was conducted on CHF patients (n = 219) at a tertiary hospital in China. The Tilburg Frailty Indicator, Heart Failure Specific Health Literacy Scale, Social Support Rating Scale, and Self-management Scale of Heart Failure Patients were used to assess frailty, health literacy, social support, and self-management, respectively. Structural equation modeling with the bootstrapping method was used to test the hypothesized relationships among the variables. The results showed that 47.9% of the CHF patients suffered from frailty. Frailty was negatively correlated with health literacy (r = -0.268, P < .01) with a moderate effect size, social support (r = -0.537, P < .01) with a large effect size, and self-management (r = -0.416, P < .01) with a moderate effect size. The structural equation modeling model showed that social support was positively associated with health literacy (β = 0.419, P < .01) and self-management (β = 0.167, P < .01) while negatively associated with frailty (β = -0.494, P < .01). Health literacy was positively associated with self-management (β = 0.565, P < .01), and self-management was negatively associated with frailty (β = -0.272, P < .01). Our study suggests the potential positive impacts of health literacy, social support, and self-management on improving frailty in CHF patients. Healthcare providers should strengthen patient health education, improve their health literacy, enhance their social support, and promote their self-management so as to reverse frailty and reduce the risk of adverse outcomes.Copyright © 2024 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.

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