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Patient awareness toward drug treatment is essential to ensure adherence. In addition, there is tendency to self-medicate which can be hazardous in these patients. The present study was planned to evaluate drug treatment awareness, patient tendency to self-medicate and prescription patterns in chronic HF patients.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methodology:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A cross-sectional, single-center, questionnaire-based study was conducted in the cardiology outpatient department of a tertiary care hospital from April 2021 to November 2022 after obtaining institutional ethics committee permission. Consented patients aged &gt;18 years of either gender with confirmed diagnosis of chronic HF on stable drug treatment were included. Current prescription details were recorded, subsequently patients were administered a prevalidated drug treatment awareness (11-item, score-11) questionnaire and self-medication practice (12-item) questionnaire.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Two hundred and fifty-six HF patients were enrolled and the overall mean treatment awareness score was 5.06 \u00b1 1.77 and content accuracy was poor for names of the prescribed drugs (58\/256,23%), dose\/frequency (20\/256, 8%) and adverse effects (0). Fifty-one percent HF patients indulged in self-medication practices with most common self-medicating drugs being analgesics. The average number of drugs\/encounter was 5.95 \u00b1 1.12 and most common class was beta-blockers.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Drug treatment awareness lacked in names, dose, frequency, and adverse effects of the prescribed drugs. Nearly 50% patients indulged in self-medication practices, maximum with analgesics. 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