Self Care Heart Failure Index - Caregiver Contribution

Primary Contact

Ercole Vellone, PhD, RN, FESC
Associate Professor in Nursing Science

Department of Biomedicine and Prevention
University of Rome “Tor Vergata”,
Via Montpellier, 1 – 00133 Rome, Italy
Phone + 39 06 72596802
Fax + 39 0672596961
Mobile + 393387491811
Skype: ercole.vellone
Email: ercole.vellone@uniroma2.it

The Caregiver versions of the self-care measures were developed by Ercole Vellone, PhD, RN, FESC, Assistant Professor in Nursing Science at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Rome, Italy. Dr. Vellone recognized that caregivers make an important contribution to the self-care of patients with chronic conditions, but few instruments are available to measure this contribution. He began his work with a measure of Caregiver Contribution to Heart Failure Self-Care and then used the same approach to develop complementary measures for other self-care inventories. Use of the patient and the caregiver versions together facilitates dyadic analyses.