Structure internal of the dimension Human Person of the Questionnaire of Health Vulnerability in Heart Failure.
Virna Ribeiro Feitosa Cestari, José Wicto Pereira Borges, Raquel Sampaio Florêncio and 3 others
PMID 36541417WHAT IT FOUND
A heart failure vulnerability questionnaire covers water and food intake, sleep and daily activities, mental health, functional health literacy, and signs and symptoms.
It may help nurses ask about self-care and daily life.
Key findings
01The final Human Person dimension model had 22 items grouped into five factors.
02The five factors covered water and food intake, sleep and daily activities, mental health, functional health literacy, and signs and symptoms.
03The study analysed responses from 1,008 people with heart failure.
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What it does not show
All participants were recruited from a tertiary hospital, and the paper describes the sample as selected by convenience. The sociodemographic, economic, and clinical profile of the participants was similar, so the questionnaire may not fit other heart failure populations. The authors report no similar instrument in the literature, so there was no external comparison. Many items were removed during the analysis, and the final model was shorter than the original item bank. The study was a psychometric validation, not a patient care intervention.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as proof that using the questionnaire improves heart failure care. The paper tested the questionnaire structure in patients with heart failure, not a care intervention.