ADHESION TO THERAPEUTIC STRATEGIES FOR OUTPATIENTS WITH HEART FAILURE - ADhesion-HF

Federal University of Bahia

Status

Completed

Conditions

Heart Failure

Treatments

Behavioral: Adhesion-HF

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02230150

ADhesion-HF

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to verify the impact of the educational intervention in the adhesion to therapeutic strategies for patients with heart failure.

Full description

Characterize the socio-demographic and clinical aspects of heart failure patients;
Awareness before and after nursing consultation, in relation to diet for heart failure, liquid and weight, general heart failure information, medication, physical activity, measures to improve disease control, signs of decompensated heart failure;
Adhesion of patients before and after nursing consultation, related to medication, liquid and weight, use of alcohol and importance of returning for consultation and exams.
Evaluated the impact of educational intervention at the levels of NT-proBNP, urea, creatinine, sodium, potassium, before and after nursing consultation;
The 6 minute walk test performance before and after nursing consultation;
The distance covered and time of the 6 minute walk test, until fatigue in heart failure patients before and after nursing consultation;

Enrollment

25 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 80 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

During the first phase of the study all the heart failure patients with ventricular ejection fraction of up to 49% shall be included (confirmed through ECOTT performed during the past year). All patients inserted had systolic heart failure and were scheduled and which agreed to take part of the research, signing a term of informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

Individuals with cognitive deficit, first outpatient medical consultation, suffered AMI (acute myocardial infarction) within the last 3 months or a stroke, post-operative of cardiac surgery, patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), orthopedic problems, patients over the age of 80 and those that do not accept to participate of the research.