IRCT201506136261N11 IRCT 2015-11-04 Vice Chancellor for research of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences The impact of hospital-based training to improve the treatment of patients with heart failure Trial of effect of hospital-based training program to improve self-care behaviors in heart failure patients using the Health Belief Model 2015-04-21 anticipated 94 Complete https://irct.ir/trial/6704 interventional Randomization: Randomized, Blinding: Not blinded, Placebo: Not used, Assignment: Parallel, Purpose: Prevention. 2 Condition 1: heart failure. Condition 2: conjestive heart failure. Condition 3: Left ventricular failure. Condition 4: Heart failure, unspecified. Intervention 1: Due to ethical considerations regarding the control group to obtain his address, educational booklets and CD with phone and e-mail address to respond to their questions, they will be available after completion of the study. Intervention 2: Educational interventions with scientific content approved by professors are conducted in four sessions. The first session held on admission includes providing the patients with a brief introduction about the study objectives and their conditions, collecting information about their training needs, providing educational pamphlets, and face-to-face training for 10 minutes. The second session held during discharge includes their familiarization with self-care behaviors through face-to-face training for 20 minutes and presentation of educational clips in form of CD. The third session held two weeks after discharge includes questions about performance of the intended behaviors at home, responding to the patients’ questions by meeting them in the clinic (considering the physicians’ visit), and collecting information. Finally, the last training session held at the end of the fifth and sixth weeks after discharge (considering the physicians’ next visit) includes review of the previously learnt issues, question and answer, and problem solving. The patients will be reminded to attend the meeting through making phone calls and sending SMS. This session will be held for groups of 7 to 10 subjects for one hour. The third stage of data collection will be carried out within the ninth and tenth weeks after discharge (considering the physicians’ next visit in the clinic).