A Supportive Care Programme for People With Heart Failure (SupportHeart)

Cyprus University of Technology

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Heart Failure

Treatments: Other: supportive care management programme

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04415723

0402/2017

Details and patient eligibility

About

Efficient health care systems for the management of chronic diseases in the community may improve clinical outcomes and simultaneously encourage patients to remain healthy. Supportive care, may contribute to empower heart failure (HF) patients for self- management and providing them with the follow-up and care based on their needs and values through the HF trajectory. To develop the current program an assessment of the support needs of HF patients' will be undertaken and the investigators will take into consideration of their personal preferences, for instance means of communication and way of exercise as part of the intervention. The present study aspires to evaluate the effectiveness of an individualized supportive care management program in terms of the four different components that comprise supportive care in HF. The objectives of this study are to:

1. Determine supportive care needs of HF patients as reported in the literature.
2. Explore Cypriot patients' identified supportive care needs.
3. To develop and test a self-management supportive care programme for HF patients.

Enrollment: 200 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• clinical diagnoses with HF (HFpEF or HFrEF), established by a cardiologist
• New York Heart Association classification stages I-IV
• Diagnosis established for at least 6 months before the start of the intervention period
• Ability to understand, write and read in Greek language

Exclusion Criteria:

• Refuse to take part in the research
• Dementia or other severe mental illness
• Transfer to nursing homes after discharge
• Difficulty in contacting them by a phone call
• Patients with chronic degenerative diseases (Alzheimer, cancer, etc)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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200 participants in 2 patient groups

intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

supportive care management programme

Treatment:

Other: supportive care management programme

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

receive the usual care provided by the health care system of Cyprus