Fig. 1From: Does improvement in self-management skills predict improvement in quality of life and depressive symptoms? A prospective study in patients with heart failure up to one year after self-management educationLatent change model (structural model) with standardized path coefficients. Predictor Self-management skills (SM), measurement points T1 throughT4. A1: Outcome Physical quality of life (pQL). B1: Outcome Mental quality of life (mQL). C1: Outcome Depressive symptoms (D). Circles represent latent variables, single-headed arrows show the impact of one variable on another, double arrows show correlations allowed between variables. Subscripted figures represent measurement points. *p < 0.05Back to article page