TY - JOUR
T1 - Predictors of Motor Tasks Essential for Daily Activities Among Persons With Heart Failure
AU - Seo, Yaewon
AU - Roberts, Beverly L.
AU - Piña, Ileana
AU - Dolansky, Mary
N1 - Funding Information:
The present study was partially funded by Sigma Theta Tau Alpha Mu Chapter and Case Western Reserve University Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing Alumni Association.
PY - 2008/5
Y1 - 2008/5
N2 - Background: To engage in daily activities, persons must be able to perform basic motor tasks, such as walking around the house, climbing up stairs, standing up from the sofa, and so forth. For patients with heart failure (HF), activity intolerance, symptoms of HF, muscle strength, and balance contribute to the "ability" to perform daily activities. Many patients with HF reported that they are able to perform motor tasks, but they modify how they do the tasks. The purpose of the study was to identify factors that predict modification in motor tasks essential to daily activities. Methods and Results: Forty-eight men and 54 women aged more than 18 years (mean 59.6 years) were recruited from an outpatient HF clinic. By using hierarchic multiple regression, 90% of the variance in modifications in motor tasks (Late Life Function and Disability Instrument-Function component) was explained, and significant predictors were dyspnea with motor tasks (β = 0.87), age (β = 0.12), and gender (β = 0.11). Older women had significantly greater modifications in these tasks than men. Conclusion: Modifications of motor tasks may provide information on those at high risk of developing disability and assist clinicians to identify interventions to improve dyspnea and prevent or reverse decline.
AB - Background: To engage in daily activities, persons must be able to perform basic motor tasks, such as walking around the house, climbing up stairs, standing up from the sofa, and so forth. For patients with heart failure (HF), activity intolerance, symptoms of HF, muscle strength, and balance contribute to the "ability" to perform daily activities. Many patients with HF reported that they are able to perform motor tasks, but they modify how they do the tasks. The purpose of the study was to identify factors that predict modification in motor tasks essential to daily activities. Methods and Results: Forty-eight men and 54 women aged more than 18 years (mean 59.6 years) were recruited from an outpatient HF clinic. By using hierarchic multiple regression, 90% of the variance in modifications in motor tasks (Late Life Function and Disability Instrument-Function component) was explained, and significant predictors were dyspnea with motor tasks (β = 0.87), age (β = 0.12), and gender (β = 0.11). Older women had significantly greater modifications in these tasks than men. Conclusion: Modifications of motor tasks may provide information on those at high risk of developing disability and assist clinicians to identify interventions to improve dyspnea and prevent or reverse decline.
KW - Dyspnea
KW - elderly adults
KW - heart failure
KW - motor tasks
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cardfail.2008.01.005
DO - 10.1016/j.cardfail.2008.01.005
M3 - Article
C2 - 18474342
AN - SCOPUS:43049183120
SN - 1071-9164
VL - 14
SP - 296
EP - 302
JO - Journal of Cardiac Failure
JF - Journal of Cardiac Failure
IS - 4
ER -