Implications for practice and research

• Healthcare professionals (HCPs) should support patients with heart failure (HF) to develop effective strategies to improve illness control.

• Further research needs to explore the cultural differences in illness control and how HCPs tailor best their support to promote illness control in patients with HF.

Context

Heart failure (HF) is a chronic illness with increased impotence and dependency where patients need to self-manage a complex treatment regime and adapt to a new lifestyle.1 The hospital readmission rates for HF within 30 days after discharge are up to 25%.2 Although many studies have investigated associated factors to hospital …