Experience in Being With Advanced Heart Failure Patients

National Taiwan University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Heart Failure

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02437331

201503067RIND

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to explore the experience in being with advanced Heart failure patients.

Full description

The aim is to explore the experience of advanced Heart failure patients during the disease trajectory in Taiwan.

Enrollment: 18 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• the patients' conscious must be clear,
• vital sign is stable,
• and can communicate in Mandarin Chinese or Taiwanese.

Exclusion criteria

• consciousness is unclear
• and can't have effective communication to interviewer.
• the patient reject to join this study.

Trial design

18 participants in 1 patient group

advanced heart failure

Description:

the patients was diagnostic on Chronic heart failure with NYHA class 3 and 4, AHA stage D, or LVEF\<40%.