Self-care behaviour and associated factors among chronic heart failure clients on follow up at selected hospitals of Wollega zones, Ethiopia

Background: Effective prevention and treatment of heart failure needs good knowledge of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) conditions and their risk factors. However, in developing countries such as Ethiopia, the levels of knowledge and awareness for CVD and risk factors were generally near to the ground. Objective: To assess self-care behaviour and its associated factors among heart failure (HF) patients on follow up at Wollega zones public hospitals, Ethiopia. Methods: Hospital based cross-sectional study was employed. The data was entered into Epi-data version 3.1 and analyzed using SPSS windows version 24.0. Variable with p-value