Nurse-led Educational Intervention on Heart Failure Patients

Attikon University Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Heart Failure

Treatments: Other: Heart failure educational intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05480969

28/18-01-2019

Details and patient eligibility

About

A randomized controlled study to examine the effect of a nurse-led, home/telephone or telephone-only educational intervention on outcomes of heart failure patients and their caregivers.

Enrollment: 73 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Written informed consent
• Men or women aged ≥18 years old.
• Hospitalized for new-onset or decompensated chronic heart failure.

Exclusion criteria

• Any severe neuromuscular disease or other disability or mobility problems that preclude performance of six-minute walk test.
• Any severe cognitive dysfunction or psychiatric disease that limit ability to receive education.
• Patients unable to be contacted by phone or other means.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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73 participants in 3 patient groups

Intervention group 1

Experimental group

Description:

Heart failure educational sessions will be provided by the heart failure-trained nurse to patients and caregivers. These will be delivered through a combination of home visits and telephone calls performed at regular time intervals for a total period of 6 months.

Treatment:

Other: Heart failure educational intervention

Intervention group 2

Experimental group

Description:

Heart failure educational sessions will be provided by the heart failure-trained nurse to patients and caregivers. These will be delivered through telephone calls performed at regular time intervals for a total period of 6 months.

Treatment:

Other: Heart failure educational intervention

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Control patients and caregivers will receive usual care for heart failure.