Motivational Interviewing for Enhancing Self-care in Patients With Heart Failure: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

Federica Dellafiore   ^{1 *} , RN, PhD ;   Greta Ghizzardi   ^{2 *} , RN, MSc ;   Ercole Vellone   ^{2, 3 *} , RN, PhD ;   Arianna Magon   ^{4 *} , RN, PhD ;   Gianluca Conte   ^{4 *} , RN, MSc ;   Irene Baroni   ^{4 *} , RN, PhD ;   Giada De Angeli   ^{4 *} , RN ;   Ida Vangone   ^{5 *} , RN, MSc ;   Sara Russo   ^{6 *} , RN, MSc ;   Cristina Arrigoni   ^{1 *} , MSc, RN ;   Rosario Caruso   ^{4, 7 *} , RN, PhD

¹ Department of Public Health, Experimental and Forensic Medicine, Section of Hygiene, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

² Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

³ Department of Nursing and Obstetrics, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland

⁴ Health Professions Research and Development Unit, Istituto di Ricerca e Cura a Carattere Scientifico Policlinico San Donato, San Donato Milanese, Italy

⁵ Department of Oncology and Hematology-Oncology, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy

⁶ Nursing degree course, Section Istituti Clinici di Pavia e Vigevano SPA, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

⁷ Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

*all authors contributed equally