Yu Mingming, Chair Sek Ying, Chan Carmen W H, Li Xiaomei, Choi Kai Chow
School of Nursing, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
Contemp Nurse. 2012 Apr;41(1):70-7. doi: 10.5172/conu.2012.41.1.70.
To identify the learning needs of patients with heart failure (HF) in China and to examine the relationships between learning needs and patients' characteristics.
Little information on the learning needs of patients with HF in China is known. Besides, it is important to identify the potential characteristics that may influence patients' perceived learning needs.
This cross-sectional questionnaire survey was conducted in three university affiliated hospitals in Xi'an, Mainland China. A total of 347 HF patients selected by convenience sampling were investigated using the Chinese version of the HF learning needs inventory. Descriptive statistics, independent t-test, Pearson correlation, and one-way analysis of variance were used for data analysis.
The mean scores rated by Chinese patients with HF were lower than the corresponding scores rated by patients of Western countries. Information on risk factors, prognosis, general HF information and medications were identified as the most important topics while lifestyle modification and psychological factors were regarded as the least important ones. Age negatively correlated with the learning needs on activity (r = -0.125) and prognosis information (r = -0.141). Educational level was significantly related to the learning needs about risk factors.
Patients with HF in China considered most of the topics important for them to learn. Age and educational level were related with the learning needs on only three topics including activity, prognosis information and risk factors.
The study findings may be used by health professionals to develop tailored educational programme for patients with HF in China.
确定中国心力衰竭（HF）患者的学习需求，并探讨学习需求与患者特征之间的关系。
关于中国HF患者学习需求的信息知之甚少。此外，识别可能影响患者感知学习需求的潜在特征很重要。
本横断面问卷调查在中国大陆西安的三家大学附属医院进行。采用中文版的HF学习需求量表，对通过便利抽样选取的347例HF患者进行调查。数据分析采用描述性统计、独立样本t检验、Pearson相关性分析和单因素方差分析。
中国HF患者的平均得分低于西方国家患者的相应得分。危险因素、预后、一般HF信息和药物方面的信息被确定为最重要的主题，而生活方式改变和心理因素被认为是最不重要的主题。年龄与活动方面的学习需求（r = -0.125）和预后信息方面的学习需求（r = -0.141）呈负相关。教育水平与危险因素方面的学习需求显著相关。
中国HF患者认为大多数主题对他们的学习很重要。年龄和教育水平仅与活动、预后信息和危险因素这三个主题的学习需求相关。
研究结果可供卫生专业人员用于为中国HF患者制定量身定制的教育计划。
