Table 3.
Social support predicting self-care indices across time in heart failure patients.
| Predictor | SC maintenance | SC management | SC confidence | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estimate | SE | reffect | Estimate | SE | reffect | Estimate | SE | reffect | |
| Intercept | 62.30*** | 4.37 | 0.65 | 50.69*** | 10.85 | 0.33 | 51.08*** | 7.48 | 0.38 |
| NYHA functional class | −0.73 | 0.53 | 0.09 | 1.12 | 1.56 | 0.11 | −2.12** | 0.72 | 0.20 |
| Time | 0.78*** | 0.10 | 0.43 | 0.99*** | 0.29 | 0.32 | 4.26* | 1.67 | 0.16 |
| Instrumental support | 4.86 | 2.74 | 0.12 | 8.08 | 6.57 | 0.18 | 21.65*** | 4.93 | 0.29 |
| Time × instrumental support | –† | –† | –† | –† | –† | –† | −2.52* | 1.15 | 0.15 |
| Intercept | 64.69*** | 4.15 | 0.68 | 43.61*** | 10.44 | 0.30 | 56.53*** | 5.56 | 0.52 |
| NYHA functional class | −0.73 | 0.53 | 0.09 | 1.35 | 1.56 | 0.13 | −1.93** | 0.71 | 0.18 |
| Time | 0.78*** | 0.10 | 0.43 | 1.00*** | 0.29 | 0.33 | 0.64*** | 0.16 | 0.25 |
| Emotional support | 2.97 | 2.36 | 0.09 | 11.62* | 5.60 | 0.29 | 16.20*** | 3.17 | 0.33 |
| Time × emotional support | –† | –† | –† | –† | –† | –† | –† | –† | –† |
| Intercept | 69.07*** | 1.68 | 0.93 | 62.35*** | 5.15 | 0.68 | 82.68*** | 2.28 | 0.91 |
| NYHA functional class | −0.92 | 0.53 | 0.12 | 0.62 | 1.57 | 0.06 | −2.09** | 0.73 | 0.17 |
| Time | 0.78*** | 0.10 | 0.43 | 1.00*** | 0.29 | 0.33 | 0.61*** | 0.15 | 0.26 |
| AwSC | 0.52* | 0.26 | 0.13 | 0.84 | 0.68 | 0.18 | −0.33 | 0.36 | 0.06 |
| Time × AwSC | –† | –† | –† | –† | –† | –† | –† | –† | –† |
p < 0.05.
p < 0.01.
p < 0.001.
Reduced models (without interaction terms) are reported where indicated, due to the time × instrumental support interaction term being a nonsignificant predictor (p > 0.05) for each self-care index.
AwSC: assistance with self-care; NYHA: New York Heart Association; SC: self-care.