90 Poster Implementation of Patients' Reaction is better than Implementation of know Ledge in Heart Fealure Patients
Patrick Jourdain, A. Boireau, Michel Desnos, Michel Bellorini, Francois Funck · European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing · 2010
Heart failure remains a disease with poor prognosis despite the therapeutic advances of recent decades. Nearly a third of hospital admissions are due to errors in dietetics follow up or therapeutic monitoring. Therapeutic education of patients with heart failure is growing fast in France. For the “Haute autorité de santé” (HAS), evaluation of education programmes is an essential element in the same way that the educational diagnosis and interactivity. We wanted to determine what the assessment could predict the onset of the test combined death and hospitalization for heart failure. We included 398 patients with systolic heart failure who received a therapeutic education between 2003 and 2008. The programme involved an educational diagnosis individual training sessions with the disease, sessions Implementation situation, self-physical and dietary. During this educational process, patients filled a questionnaire initial knowledge (Q1) and a questionnaire at the end of training (Q2) and one year of it (Q3). They also fulfilled a clinical case assessment and post training within one year.