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Heart failure self-care: an evolutionary concept analysis

Self-care is a central concept in heart failure management and nursing practice. Yet, the uptake of heart failure self-care has been uncritical and detached from broader contexts. Therefore, heart failure self-care was explored using Rodger’s evolutionary concept analysis approach to identify antecedents, attributes, and consequences with attention to context, time, application, and meaning. The analysis suggests that heart failure self-care tends to focus on individual behaviours to the detriment of social and structural determinants of health. It also shifts responsibility away from the healthcare system and onto the individual. Moving forward, a more robust conceptualization of heart failure self-care is needed or possibly, the development of a new concept that focuses beyond the self. / Graduate / 2022-12-15

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:uvic.ca/oai:dspace.library.uvic.ca:1828/13662
Date04 January 2022
CreatorsGarland, Rachel
ContributorsGagnon, Marilou, Lewis, Krystina
Source SetsUniversity of Victoria
LanguageEnglish, English
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis
Formatapplication/pdf
RightsAvailable to the World Wide Web

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