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A Situation-Specific Theory of Heart Failure Self-Care

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The situation-specific theory of heart failure (HF) self-care, developed in 2008 and revised in 2016 is used worldwide by clinicians and researchers. Central to this theory is the description of self-care as a naturalistic decision-making process involving the choice of behaviors that maintain physiologic stability (maintenance), symptom perception, and the response to symptoms when they occur (management).

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  1. University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Barbara Riegel

  2. Australian Catholic University, Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research, Melbourne, Australia

    Barbara Riegel

  3. Pless Center for Nursing Research, New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing, New York, NY, USA

    Victoria Vaughan Dickson

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    Eun-Ok Im

  2. Professor of Nursing and Sociology and Dean Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing, Philadelphia, PA, USA

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Riegel, B., Dickson, V.V. (2021). A Situation-Specific Theory of Heart Failure Self-Care. In: Im, EO., Meleis, A.I. (eds) Situation Specific Theories: Development, Utilization, and Evaluation in Nursing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63223-6_11

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