Effect of Supportive-Educative System of Activity Daily Living (ADL) In Heart Failure Patients

Abstract

Abstract Background: Heart failure is a chronic phase that causes functional damage to the heart due to the many symptoms that occur. The number of symptoms that occur impacts the difficulty in meeting the needs of daily activities. Heart failure requiring proper containment procedures, an intervention can be given pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapy, which one of them supportive-educative system. This system helps patients get health information, and helps in decision making. Objective: To identify the influence of supportive-educative systems on the Daily Living Activity of Heart Failure Patients. Methods: This study used a quasi-experimental method with pre-test and post-test with a control group, a total of 34 patients who had been diagnosed with heart failure using the technique of non-probability, kind consecutive sampling. Overall respondents were divided into two groups chosen by simple random sampling. The intervention group was given treatment supportive - an educative system, while the control group was given basic intervention according to hospital discharge planning for 4 weeks, the first week of intervention (pre-test), the second and third week of observation, the last week of evaluation (post-test). The process that has been done is then tested using Wilcoxon and Paired Samples Test. Results: This study showed there was an increase in Activity Daily Living in the intervention group from the control group, and the results of different tests showed the intervention group was more influential compared to the control group with a τ-value of 0.00. Conclusion: There is no effect of providing a supportive-educative system on Activity Daily Living of heart failure patients.