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Aug 29th, 2007
Best Practice Recommended Questions to Assess Patient's Physical Status and Activity Patterns- Level 2
Assessing Current Practices:- What is your daily physical activity pattern?
- Have you changed anything in your daily physical activity since you found out you have Heart Failure?
- What times of day are you typically most active?
- What do you consider strenuous activity?
- What types of exercise do you do?
- Normally would you exercise outside of your home?
- On a typical day, what is the most activity you can do before you develop symptoms? How has this changed in the last week? Month? Year?
- Other than the symptoms of HF what else limits your ability to be active?
- Have you ever fallen at home? Under what circumstances?
- Do you have trouble getting up from a sitting position in a chair? Out of bed? Off the toilet?
Assessing Physical Status:- What types of in-home activities do you avoid because they are too difficult?
- Do you have any assistive equipment that you need to use during daily activit
Assessing Resources, Risk, and Readiness
- On a scale of 1-10 how important do you think it is for you make changes in your current activity level?
- On a scale of 1-10 how confident are you about making changes to improve your activity level?
- What could you do differently to change your current level of activity?
- Do you have someone to assist you with an activity plan?
- How safe do you feel to exercise? What concerns you?
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