Family-center empowerment model influencing lifestyle of heart failure patients

3^rd Euro Nursing & Medicare Summit

July 27-29, 2015 Valencia, Spain

Mahnaz Rakhshan, Khadijeh Rahimi and Soraya Ghadakpoor

Shiraz University of Medical Science, Iran

Posters-Accepted Abstracts: J Nurs Care

Abstract :

Aim: Cardiovascular diseases are the most prevalent disorders in progressed countries and heart failure is the major one among them. This disease is caused by numerous factors and one of the most considerable risk factor is unhealthy lifestyle. So the aim of this research is to study the effect of family-center empowerment model on the lifestyle of heart failure patients. Methods: This is an interventional two group (test and control) study on 70 heart failure referring patients in Hazrate Fatemeh Heart Clinic in Shiraz. After convenience sampling, patients were divided into two control and test groups by block randomization method. The intervention based on family-center empowerment model performed during 5 sessions. Research tools are lifestyle and demographic information questioners. Regarding the research aims, chi-square, independent T-tests, and paired T-tests were used for analyzing data. Results: Both test and control groups was similar regarding their demographic information (P>0.05). Before intervention in lifestyle all measures of two groups were equal (p>0.05) but after the intervention, meaningful statistical differences recorded in all dimensions of lifestyle (P<0.05). Conclusion: Performing the family-center empowerment model for heart failure patients is practically possible and lead to improvement or refinement of their lifestyles and their families.

Biography :

MahnazRakhshan has completed his Ph.D. at the age of 33 years from ShahidBeheshtee University of Medical Science, School of Nursing and Midwifery. She is the Director of Medical-Surgical department. She has presented more than 25 papers (oral and poster) in national and international congress.

Email: mzrakhshan@ymail.com