Figure 1.
Two distinct trajectories of heart failure self-care management are presented. The largest trajectory was characterized by higher baseline values and a significant decline in heart failure self-care management over the course of six months (solid line). The smaller trajectory was characterized by lower baseline values and significant improvement in self-care management over six months (dashed line). Differences in heart failure self-care maintenance between the two trajectories of self-care management are also presented. Negative intercepts (i) indicate that enrollment values were lower, and positive slopes (s) indicate that change in self-care was greater, in the self-care management getting better trajectory compared with the self-care management getting worse trajectory. A single dagger (†) indicates a significant change from enrollment values and a double dagger (‡) indicates a significant change from three-month values based on paired t-test.