Table 2.

 Patient perceptions of heart failure

	Total cohort (n = 103)	Indo-Asian (n = 34)	Afro-Caribbean (n = 22)	White (n = 42)
Patient’s awareness of the primary diagnosis of heart failure
Aware	68 (66.0%)	13 (38.2%)	15 (68.2%)	36 (85.7%)
Not aware	35 (34.0%)	21 (61.8%)	7 (31.8%)	6 (14.3%)
Perception of the severity of heart failure
Not severe	37 (35.9%)	17 (50.0%)	9 (40.9%)	8 (19.1%)
Severe	53 (51.5)	10 (29.4%)	11 (50.0%)	30 (71.4%)
Very severe	13 (12.6%)	7 (20.6%)	2 (9.1%)	4 (9.5%)
Perception whether heart failure is curable
Curable	29 (28.2%)	10 (29.4%)	5 (22.7%)	14 (33.3%)
Not curable	74 (71.8%)	24 (70.6%)	17 (77.3%)	28 (66.7%)
Perception whether heart failure is treatable
Treatable	83 (80.6%)	30 (88.2%)	17 (77.3%)	33 (78.6%)
Not treatable	20 (19.4%)	4 (11.8%)	5 (22.7%)	9 (21.4%)
Perception whether patient health is:
Improving	37 (35.9%)	15 (44.1%)	8 (36.4%)	13 (31.0%)
Worsening	12 (11.6%)	2 (5.9%)	3 (13.6%)	5 (11.9%)
Unchanged	54 (52.4%)	17 (50.0%)	11 (50.0%)	24 (57.1%)