The impact of a self-management patient education program for patients with chronic heart failure undergoing inpatient cardiac rehabilitation.

Objective: To evaluate a patient-centred self-management educational group program for patients with chronic systolic heart failure as compared to usual care education during inpatient cardiac rehabilitation.

Methods: A multicentre cluster randomized controlled trial of 475 patients was conducted. In the intervention condition, patients received the new self-management educational group program whereas in the control condition, patients received a short lecture-based educational program (usual care).

Evaluation of a self-management patient education program for patients with chronic heart failure undergoing inpatient cardiac rehabilitation: study protocol of a cluster randomized controlled trial.

Background: Chronic heart failure requires a complex treatment regimen on a life-long basis. Therefore, self-care/self-management is an essential part of successful treatment and comprehensive patient education is warranted. However, specific information on program features and educational strategies enhancing treatment success is lacking.

Type D personality and all-cause mortality in cardiac patients--data from a German cohort study.

Objective: Type D personality has been established as a predictor of adverse clinical events in patients with cardiovascular diseases. To date, all studies except one have been conducted by a single research group. Thus, the aim of our study was to provide an independent replication of the results regarding the prognostic validity of Type D personality in a German sample of cardiac patients.

[Health promotion and inpatient rehabilitation. Long-term effects of education in patients with coronary heart disease].

Background And Purpose: The most important goals in the rehabilitation of patients with a coronary heart disease (CHD) include the diagnosis and treatment of risk factors, health promotion, and education. The knowledge on and awareness of cardiovascular risk factors is an important precondition for a high patient compliance. Former studies on patients in cardiologic departments of hospitals showed no effect of health promotion and education on patients' knowledge on risk factors, presumably because of the setting in acute therapy.

[Evaluation of the German Type D Scale (DS14) and prevalence of the Type D personality pattern in cardiological and psychosomatic patients and healthy subjects].

The Type D personality pattern, consisting of negative affectivity and social inhibition, has been shown by Denollet et al. to predict adverse prognosis in patients with coronary heart disease. For measuring the Type D characteristics, Denollet has devised the 14 item Type D scale (DS14).