Self Care of Coronary Heart Disease Inventory - Patient Version
Primary Contacts:
Victoria Vaughan Dickson, PhD, RN, FAAN
Dean, University of Connecticut School of Nursing
Barbara Riegel, PhD, RN, FAAN, FAHA
Professor
Penn Nursing
University of Pennsylvania
418 Curie Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104-4217
Email: briegel@nursing.upenn.edu
Co-Director, International Center for Self-Care Research www.selfcareresearch.org
Coronary heart disease (CHD) requires a significant amount of self-care. We used the Self-Care of Chronic Illness theory to develop the Self-Care of Coronary Heart Disease Inventory (SC-CHDI). We developed a 22-item measure of self-care maintenance, monitoring, and management appropriate for persons with stable CHD and tested it in a convenience sample of adults, as described in this publication (Dickson VV, Lee CS, Yehle KS, Mola A, Faulkner KM, Riegel B. Psychometric Testing of the Self-Care of Coronary Heart Disease Inventory (SC-CHDI), Research in Nursing & Health, 2017: 40(1), 15-22. DOI 10.1002/nur.21755). The instrument was recently updated and that manuscript is under review. The findings support the conceptual basis of self-care in patients with CHD as a process of maintenance that includes both consultative and autonomous behaviors, monitoring, and management with symptom awareness and response. This instrument is available for use as a measure of self-care in this population.
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