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A Telerehabilitation Intervention for People With Heart Failure and Chronic Fatigue

U

University of North Carolina System

Status

Completed

Conditions

Heart Failure

Treatments

Other: Health Education Intervention
Other: Energy Conservation plus Problem Solving Therapy

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03820674
UMCIRB 16-000078

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study compares the effectiveness of a 6-week Energy Conservation + Problem Solving Therapy Intervention to Health Education Intervention for reducing the fatigue impact and fatigue level and improving the level of participation in instrumental, leisure, and social activities in people with heart failure associated fatigue. Half of the participants received Energy Conservation + Problem Solving Therapy Intervention, and the other half received Health Education Intervention.

Full description

Energy Conservation+Problem Solving Therapy (EC+PST) Intervention: In this study, the EC+PST Intervention will ideally occur twice a week for 6 weeks with each session lasting approximately 30 minutes. The intervention will be individually delivered via telehealth; therefore, participants will receive the intervention in their home to minimize fatigue from the intervention.

Health Education Intervention: The Health Education Intervention will occur once a week for 6 weeks with each session lasting approximately 30 minutes. The Health Education Intervention will be delivered via telehealth; therefore, participants will receive the intervention at their convenient quiet place to minimize fatigue from the intervention.

Enrollment

23 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

(a) a minimum 6 months since diagnosed with HF and 3 months post-hospitalization, (b) reporting of moderate to severe fatigue by scoring ≥4 according to Fatigue Severity Scale, (c) living in the community, (d) having access to the internet or telephone in the place of residence, (e) having functional English fluency, and (f) having functional vision to operate the tablet computer.

Exclusion criteria

  1. had a score of ≥9 in Short Blessed Test indicating cognitive impairment
  2. were classified as having New York Heart Association (NYHA) Functional Classification level IV on their medical record

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Single Blind

23 participants in 2 patient groups

Energy Conservation plus Problem Solving Therapy Intervention
Experimental group
Description:
Receiving experimental intervention
Treatment:
Other: Energy Conservation plus Problem Solving Therapy
Health Education Intervention
Active Comparator group
Description:
Receiving control intervention
Treatment:
Other: Health Education Intervention

Trial contacts and locations

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