Kinesiophobia and Its Association With Fatigue in CHF Patients

Kinesiophobia is related with adverse outcomes in various diseases, but it hasn't been studied in chronic heart failure (CHF). Fatigue often causes movement avoidance in CHF patients by leading to a worse condition and server symptom burden. To explore kinesiophobia and its related factors and...

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Published inClinical nursing research p. 10547738221081230
Main Authors Qin, Jingwen, Xiong, Juanjuan, Wang, Xue, Gao, Ya, Gong, Kaizheng
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.09.2022
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fatigue
chronic heart failure
fear of movement
nursing
kinesiophobia
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Summary:Kinesiophobia is related with adverse outcomes in various diseases, but it hasn't been studied in chronic heart failure (CHF). Fatigue often causes movement avoidance in CHF patients by leading to a worse condition and server symptom burden. To explore kinesiophobia and its related factors and the relationship between the kinesiophobia and fatigue in CHF patients. We recruited total of 236 inpatients with CHF from October 2020 to March 2021 and administered a self-designed demographic questionnaire, the Chinese version of the Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia Heart (TSK-Heart-C), and the Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory (MFI-20), and collected related electronic medical record data. The results showed that the incidence of kinesiophobia was 63.14% in hospitalized patients, and there was a moderate correlation between fatigue and kinesiophobia (  = .49,  < .01). Educational background, monthly family income, disease course, and fatigue explained 41% of the variation in kinesiophobia, of which fatigue independently accounted for 9%.
ISSN:1552-3799
DOI:10.1177/10547738221081230