Table 3.
Unadjusted change scores for pilot study participants, M (SD).
| Measure | Desired change | Patient |
Caregiver |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre | Post | Pre | Post | ||
| Patient Health Questionnaire-9 | Lower | 11.1 (6.8) | 11.0 (7.1) | 5.6 (4.2) | 4.7 (4.9) |
| Caregiver reaction assessment | Higher | – | – | 65.1 (8.9) | 67.0 (11.4) |
| Self-care of heart failure index | Higher | ||||
| Maintenance | 71.7 (9.9) | 74.2 (9.4) | – | – | |
| Management | 57.9 (19.3) | 61.4 (19.7) | – | – | |
| Confidence | 63.3 (17.6) | 69.5 (10.7) | – | – | |
| Dyadic coping inventory | Higher | 140.4 (18.2) | 142.9 (16.5) | 141.9 (23.8) | 136.3 (13.9) |
| Couples’ illness communication scale | Higher | 14.5 (3.5) | 15.8 (3.2) | 15.6 (3.5) | 14.7 (3.9) |
| Mutuality psychological development questionnaire | Higher | 76.2 (5.1) | 77.2 (2.4) | 69.3 (5.9) | 73.6 (2.2) |
| Minnesota living with HF questionnaire | Lower | 50.9 (31.9) | 56.1 (28.1) | – | – |
| SF-12 | Higher | ||||
| Physical component | 39.3 (7.3) | 33.5 (4.7) | 46.2 (11.0) | 39.4 (8.9) | |
| Mental component | 45.6 (7.8) | 34.3 (10.3) | 39.8 (8.0) | 33.3 (7.93) | |