Table 2 Education intervention topics
Knowledge | Do you suffer from heart failure? |
Attitudes | What is ‘heart failure’ for you? |
Motivation | What do you know about heart failure? |
How do you live with this disease? | |
What impact has heart failure had on your life (personal, professional, social)? | |
What are your fears? | |
What are your expectations? | |
Clinical alarm signs | For you, what could be a clinical alarm sign of your heart failure? |
What should you do to detect clinical alarm signs? | |
Do you know what to do if you detect clinical alarm signs? | |
Physical activity | What does physical activity mean for you? |
What physical activities do you undertake? Housework? Leisure (e.g. gardening)? Transportation (e.g. walking, car)? | |
When are you breathless? (New York Heart Association assessment) | |
Regarding your habits, what would you be ready to change? | |
Diet | Where do you eat your meals? |
Who does the cooking? | |
High-salt food: what do you know about it? How much do you consume? | |
What is your point of view and what changes are you ready to make? | |
For those with a body mass index ≥30: what are your diet mistakes (snack food, overeating) or diet troubles? | |
For those with a body mass index ≤18 (adult patients) or 21 (elderly patients): what are your diet mistakes or diet troubles? |