AF at Home: A Virtual Education Program for Patients With Atrial Fibrillation (AF)

University of North Carolina (UNC)

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Atrial Fibrillation

Treatments: Other: AF at Home

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT05810896

22-1350b

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this study is to determine the effectiveness of a direct-to-patient virtual education program ("AF at Home") for adults with atrial fibrillation (AF). The main questions this study aims to answer are:

1. Will participants in the educational program have improvement in quality of life, self-monitoring, and self-management strategies after program completion?
2. Will patient level quality of AF care improve for participants in the educational program?

Participants will be asked to:

• Participate in six hours of virtual education sessions over three weeks via Zoom.
• Complete online questionnaires before the program starts and after its completion.

Enrollment: 300 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patient with diagnosis of non-valvular or valvular atrial fibrillation
• Age >/= 18

Exclusion criteria

• Unable to provide informed consent
• Incarcerated patient

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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300 participants in 1 patient group

AF at Home

Experimental group

Description:

All recruited participants will participate in the AF at Home educational intervention.

Treatment:

Other: AF at Home