Table 2.

Participants inclusion criteria

	Inclusion criteria	Exclusion criteria
Persons with HF	Adults ≥18 years old Confirmed HF diagnostic NYHA class II–IV Speaking French or German Receiving home-based care and living at home Providing written informed consent to participate	Suffering from immediately life threatening or terminal illness. Clinical instability requiring hospitalisation. Already enrolled in an interventional study supporting HF self-care Subject to cognitive impairment that would preclude written informed consent.
Informal caregivers	Adults ≥18 years old. Identified by the participating HF person as an informal caregiver. Living with the person with HF or having at least weekly contact. Speaking French or German. Providing written informed consent to participate.	Cognitive impairment that would preclude written informed consent. Suffering from immediately life threatening or terminal illness. Refusal by the person with HF to involve an informal caregiver in the study.
Nurses	Registered/diploma nurses delivering the intervention. Working in the study setting’s homecare site. Fluent in French or German. Being designated by the homecare nurse manager.	Not having attended to the preparation sessions of the intervention.

HF, heart failure; NYHA, New York Heart Association functional class.