: Use of Teach Back by Care Coordinators to Improve Self-Care of Heart Failure Patients

Authors

Marcelli Contreras, Corewell Health East

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

9-16-2025

Abstract

Heart Failure is a life-long condition that causes significant morbidity, mortality, poor quality of life, and high health care costs. Educational intervention delivered in the community by care coordinators can improve heart failure patient's self-care. Of the 35 patients who received the teach-back method intervention, responses to the Self-Care Heart Failure Index revealed an improvement in all three processes of self-care maintenance, self-care management, and symptom perception. Thirty-three of thirty-five participants were not readmitted during the project implementation, suggesting that the intervention improved self-care and reduced readmissions.

Comments

19th Annual ACMA Case Management and Transitions of Care Conference, Great Lakes Chapter, September 16, 2025, Novi, Michigan

Recommended Citation

Contreras M. Use of teach back by care coordinators to improve self-care of heart failure patients. 19th Annual ACMA Case Management and Transitions of Care Conference, Great Lakes Chapter; 2025 Sept 16; Novi, MI.