NURSE-led Follow-up in Patients Undergoing CATheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation (NURSECAT-AF)

Hospital Clinic of Barcelona

Status: Completed

Conditions: Atrial Fibrillation

Treatments: Behavioral: educational program; Other: usual care; Behavioral: telephone and e-mail contact; Behavioral: risk factors management

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05333445

NURSECAT-AF

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study aims to examine the effect of nurse-led education program on quality of life, atrial fibrillation (AF) risk factors, AF symptomatology, arrhythmia recurrence rate, and readmission rate after AF catheter ablation.

Enrollment: 66 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Derivatives from the outpatient clinic of the center itself, as well as patients referred from other centers that have ours as a reference for a first AF ablation procedure.
• Have signed the informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with cognitive impairment or disorientation.
• Patients with problems of comprehension or expression of Spanish or Catalan.
• Patients who are part of the medical or nursing group.
• Patient with defined heart failure with a left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) less than 40% and a NYHA III or IV.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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66 participants in 2 patient groups

Nursing intervention

Experimental group

Description:

The NI will be performed at 3 times: face to face between 21 and 7 days before admission, between 7 and 15 days after the date of ablation, and 6 months after the ablation procedure.

Treatment:

Behavioral: risk factors management

Behavioral: telephone and e-mail contact

Behavioral: educational program

control group

Active Comparator group

Description:

After hospital discharge, all patients will be referred to their primary care physician or cardiologist for follow-up. Patients will receive standard follow-up checks by the medical team will not receive structured education from the nurse.

Treatment:

Other: usual care