relationship between self-care and physician-patient relations in patients with heart failure

This study aimed to determine the relationship between self-care and physician-patient relations in patients with heart failure (hf). this cross-sectional study was conducted on 200 patients with hf, referring to the outpatient clinics affiliated with tabriz university of medical sciences, iran. utilizing a systematic random sampling method, the patients were selected from those who had made intake appointments. the physician-patient relationship questionnaire and the european heart failure self-care behavior scale (ehfscb scale) were used to collect the data. data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, pearson correlation coefficient, logistic regression, student’s t-test, and one-way anova in spss (ver. 25). the total score of the self-care behaviors in the patients referring to the outpatient clinics was moderate (31.88 ± 8.66). also, significant relationships were observed between the scores of self-care behaviors and physician’s gender, patient’s marital status, patient’s education, and between physician-patient relations scores and physician gender (p-value < 0.05). moreover, physician-patient relations and marital status could predict the patient’s self-care variable by 22% (r 2= 0.221, f = 5.35). the study results revealed that physician-patient relations could explain the self-care behaviors of patients with hf.