MOTIVATional intErviewing to Improve Self-care in Heart Failure Patients (MOTIVATE-HF)

University of Rome Tor Vergata

Status

Completed

Conditions

Heart Failure

Treatments

Behavioral: Motivational interviewing

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02894502

121/13

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aims of this study will be to evaluate the effect of motivational interviewing (MI) to improve self-care in heart failure (HF) patients and caregiver contributions to HF self-care. Also this study will evaluate the effect of MI on the following secondary outcomes: In HF patients: HF somatic symptom perception, generic and specific quality of life, anxiety and depression, sleep quality, mutuality with caregiver, hospitalizations, use of emergency services, and mortality; In caregivers: generic quality of life, anxiety and depression, mutuality with patient, preparedness, social support and sleep quality.

Enrollment

510 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Diagnosis of HF (for patient), New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional class II- IV (for patient), Inadequate self-care assessed with the Self-Care Heart Failure Index (for patient), Being the informal caregiver of the patients (for caregiver).

Exclusion criteria

Severe cognitive impairment evaluated with the Six-item screener (for patient), Acute coronary syndrome during the last three months (for patient), Living in a residential settings (e.g., nursing home) (for patient), Patients not willing to participate in the study (for caregiver).