Dyadic Health Literacy and Its Association with Care Collaboration and Satisfaction in Heart Failure Patient–Caregiver Dyads: A Cross-Sectional Study
Wenhai Fan, Xiaoqing Zhang, Chunxia Li, Lihong Li, Lijun Wang, Mingming Yu · 2026
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Heart failure care is a team sport played by a patient and a caregiver at home, and both have to read the illness well. Wenhai Fan and five co-authors study that shared know-how in pairs in a 2026 survey. They draw 231 patient-caregiver pairs from four large hospitals in Beijing, with data from late 2023 to mid-2024.
Each pair's grasp of the illness was scored on a heart-failure scale. A second scale graded how the pair works as a team on symptoms and how pleased each is with the care type they use. A grouping method sorts the pairs into profiles by their joint grasp. The team then asks whether the pairs who know more, or know in step, also work better as a team. The aim is care plans that train the pair, not just the patient.
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| CREATOR | Wenhai Fan, Xiaoqing Zhang, Chunxia Li, Lihong Li, Lijun Wang, Mingming Yu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 36 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |