الخلاصة

Objective: aimed to assess self-care activities among patients with heart failure and to find out the relationship between the patient self-care activities and clinical data (diabetes mellitus, Kidney failure, Thyroid disease, C.V.A. Methodology: a descriptive study was carried out through the present study in order to achieve the early stated objectives. The study was begun from November, 1st, 2016 to April, 22nd, 2016. The study is conducted in Al-Najaf City/Al-Najaf Al-Ashraf Health Directorate / Al-Sadder Medical City in cardiac units (CCU, Medical ward and Al-Najaf Center for Heart Disease and Surgery). A non-probability (Convenience) sample of (60) patients with Heart Failure, were included in the present study. The data was collected on structured questionnaire designed specifically for this study, and it is consist of three parts:Part 1 Included Socio-demographic characteristics and clinical data, and Part 2 Include (Chronic disease). Part 3 include Information regarding self-care activities. Validity of the study instrument is conducted through a panel of experts who have years of experience in nursing field. Data analysis by using descriptive statistics (percentage, frequency &mean of score) and inferential statistics (Chi-Square, Standard deviation and Contingency Coefficient). Results: revealed that the heart failure patients were failure at all studied domains regarding self-care activities. Also there was a non-significant association between self-care activities of heart failure patients and their clinical data except with diabetes mellitus there is a significant association at P-value equal or less than 0.05. Conclusion: The researcher can conclude that the patients in rural residential area are more vulnerable to get heart failure than those in urban areas and Heart failure has strong effect on overall domains of patient self-care activities. Recommendation: The study recommends that increasing medical and nursing care for heart failure patients to promote self-care activities.And Further studies should be conduction with a larger sample (national level) including both rural and urban populations.