Nutritional Orientations and Adherence, Nutritional Status, Clinical and Life Quality Parameters of Heart Failure (HF) Patients

Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

Status: Completed

Conditions: Nutrition; Heart Failure

Treatments: Behavioral: Nutritional education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00957814

UFRGS and HCPA 14741

Details and patient eligibility

About

The nutritional systematic orientations in outpatients with heart failure throughout 1 year in comparison to conventional treatment is estimated to lead to higher nutritional treatment adherence and improved nutritional status, clinical and life quality parameters.

Full description

To evaluate the impact of systematic nutritional orientation on adherence to diet and relation to clinical, life quality and nutritional knowledge parameters in heart failure outpatients.

• To evaluate the impact of systematic nutritional orientation on nutritional status;
• To evaluate the impact of nutritional systematic orientation on dietary patterns
• To evaluate the impact of systematic nutritional orientation on clinical and biochemical parameters
• To evaluate the impact of nutritional systematic orientation on life quality
• To evaluate the impact of nutritional systematic orientation on nutritional knowledge

Enrollment: 46 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• >= 18 years old
• Outpatients from the HF Ambulatory (HCPA)
• Functional class I and II (NYHA)

Exclusion criteria

• Outpatient who had received any orientation from a nutritionist in the last 6 months
• Outpatients which has not received nursing orientation in the ambulatory,
• Patients from other NYHA class
• Non alphabetized

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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46 participants in 2 patient groups

Control

Experimental group

Description:

Usual care with medical and nursing staff

Treatment:

Behavioral: Nutritional education

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Usual care with medical and nursing staff and additional nutritional guidance about diet and its relationship with disease, sources of nutrients, and reduction of dietary sodium and fats. Enforcement of the nutritional guidance was performed after 4 weeks.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Nutritional education