IRCT2015071823159N3 IRCT 2015-09-27 Vice chancellor for research, Iran University of Medical Sciences The effect of education on on Chronic heart failure patient’s self care behaviors Comparing the effect of family centered and patient centered education on Chronic heart failure patient’s self care behaviors 2015-08-23 anticipated 120 Complete https://irct.ir/trial/19811 interventional Randomization: Randomized, Blinding: Not blinded, Placebo: Not used, Assignment: Parallel, Purpose: Health service research. N/A Heart failure. Intervention 1: Family-centered group that, including the patient and his active member of family will be asked in the three educational sessions on topics related to self care, including the introduction of disease, chronic heart failure, risk factors, symptoms, diet, exercise appropriate medical treatment and proper care and management of the disease that the researcher will participate in the hospital. Each session lasted 45 minutes and will be scheduled according to the needs of patients and their family members may continue for up to 60 minutes. The teaching methods and, if possible, as a group with a maximum number of 10 participants will be accompanied by questions and answers and images. Intervention 2: In patient-centered group that only patients participate in the training session educational content will be the. Educational content will be the same in both groups, the content includes the introduction of chronic heart failure, risk factors, symptoms, diet, proper exercise, proper medication and self-care and management of the disease. Intervention 3: The control patients will receive training in common hospital care.