OBJECTIVE: To identify articles that assessed the effectiveness or efficacy of nonpharmacological interventions to improve quality of life of people with heart failure in the literature. METHOD: An integrative literature review was performed in LILACS, Medline and SciELO databases, including randomized or nonrandomized clinical trials and quasi-experimental studies published between 2003 and 2014, in Portuguese, English or Spanish. RESULTS: Twenty-three studies were included. The categories of nonpharmacological interventions that improved quality of life of people with heart failure were: remote health monitoring, instructions on health practices, physical activity follow-up and traditional Chinese medicine practices. CONCLUSION: These results can guide the selection of interventions to be implemented by health professionals that treat people with heart failure. Future systematic reviews with meta-analyses are needed in order to identify the most effective interventions for improving these individuals' quality of life.

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