Health-care Professionals involved in Self-care Management and their Recommendations for Congestive Cardiac failure in an Outpatient Department setting: A scoping review

Abstract

The objective of this scoping review is to understand the extent and type of evidence in relation to Health care professionals involved in Self-care management and their recommendations for self-care individuals with congestive cardiac failure in a hospital outpatient department setting.Researches included were Randomized Controlled Trails and Quasi experimental studies on patients with congestive cardiac failure published in English and prior to August 2022.The sources of evidence werePubMed, Science Direct, JSTOR, Cochrane Database and registry of clinical trial, PEDro (Physical therapy Evidence Database).A total of 24 articles (14 randomised controlled trials, 4 multicentre RCTs, 2 quasi-experimental studies, 1 single-arm prospective feasibility study, 1 randomised control single centre study, 1 clustered randomised controlled trial, 1 randomised comparative effectiveness trial) were included in our final analysis. Among health-care professionals, cardiology experts, nurses (Heart Failure nurse, a geriatric nurse), pharmacist, physical therapist, exercise physiologist, occupational therapist, health behaviorist, dietitian, psychiatrist were involved in self-care management programs. We conclude that health-care professionals of every field involved in self-care management program in few research articles. The substantial existing evidence from this review corroborate that there are various self-care management programs but recommendations from all programs have similar aspects.