Depression and Quality of Life in Chronic Heart Failure Patients and the Caregivers

National Taiwan University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Quality of Life (QOL); Chronic Heart Failure (CHF); Anxiety and Depression; Exercise

Treatments: Other: Home-based exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01197313

9561709097

Details and patient eligibility

About

Anxiety and depression are often present in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF). This study aimed to evaluate the influence of anxiety and depression on the physical function, disability, and quality of life (QOL) in CHF. This study examined the effects of 8-week home-based exercise on these parameters, and investigated the correlations between these outcome changes.

Enrollment: 51 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Clinical diagnosis of CHF for more than 6 months (NYHA Classes I-III)
• Medically stable for at least 3 months

Exclusion criteria

• Malignancy
• Psychiatric disease, primary neuromusculoskeletal or respiratory diseases that affected the assessment of functional or exercise capacity
• Changes in medication occurred during the study period

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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51 participants in 1 patient group

Exercise

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Home-based exercise