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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jun 20.
Published in final edited form as: Eur J Cardiovasc Nurs. 2018 Mar 13;17(7):598–604. doi: 10.1177/1474515118762800

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.