predictors of adherence to self-care behaviors among patients with coronary heart disease

Background & aim: coronary heart disease (chd) was responsible for 7.4 million deaths globally. self-care is an integral element of standardmedical management for chd. the aims of this study were: (1) to describe self-care maintenance, self-care monitoring, self-caremanagement, and self-care confidence among patients with chdpatients; and (2) to identify predictors of self-caremaintenance, self-caremonitoring, self-caremanagement, and self-care confidence in jordanian chd patients. methods & materials: a descriptive cross-sectional design was used. a sample of 193 patients with chd was interviewed. self-care behaviors were measured by the self-care coronary heart disease index (sc-chdi). anxiety and depression were assessed using the hospital anxiety and depression scale (had), and social support was assessed using themultidimensional scale of perceived social support (mspss). results: the mean age of the participants was 60.4 years (sd=10.61). 139 (72%) of the participantsweremales. female patientswere significantlyworse thanmale patients in self-care management (p=0.045) and self-care confidence (p=0.014). significant predictors for better self-caremaintenancewere older age and higher self-care confidence. the prediction model explained 17.6%of the variance in self-caremaintenance (f= 4.188, p=. <001). the significant predictors for self-care confidence were self-care maintenance, self-care management, and bmi. the prediction model explained 29% of the variance in the self-care confidence (f= 7. 137, p=. <001). conclusion: the study revealed that self-care maintenance was adequate while self-care management and self-care confidencewere suboptimal.older age, higher educational level, and better self-care confidence were predictors of higher self-care maintenance.