Assessment of self-health management capacity and its influencing factors in patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis in Shanxi Province, China

The self-health management capacity among patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis in Shanxi Province is moderate to low, influenced by various determinants such as education level, occupational status, monthly household income, healthcare burden, duration of liver cirrhosis, alcohol consumption history, comorbidities, and Child-Pugh classification. It is recommended a precise intervention strategy is proposed to enhance the public health prevention and control effect of liver cirrhosis: transitioning from traditional hospital-centric models to a stratified, intelligent, and community-integrated comprehensive prevention and control system.