Platform Therapeutic Education in Heart Failure and Coronary Disease (METISCARDIO)

Resicard

Status: Completed

Conditions: Coronary Bypass Graft Stenosis of Native Artery Graft; Acute Coronary Syndrome; Heart Failure

Treatments: Behavioral: therapeutic education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01869452

Platform

Details and patient eligibility

About

A first therapeutic education is given before patient's discharge at the hospital, then a dedicated nurse follows patients through the phone,regularly according to patients' needs, continues to give advise on risk factors, information on medication and alert symptoms and therapeutic education.

Full description

Patients are assigned to an arm accordingly to their needs: class 1 with light therapeutic education, class 2 with moderate education, class 3 with heavy education. Assignement is based on the first education diagnosis during hospitalization time.

Quality of life and patient's knowledge are regularly evaluated through questionnaires

Enrollment: 555 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• hospitalization for acute coronary syndrome (ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction ,no ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction ST , unstable angina)
• hospitalization for heart failure
• acute coronary syndrome < 3 months
• heart failure < 3 months
• coronary by-pass surgery < 3 months

Exclusion criteria

• complicated acute coronary syndrome (ventricular arrhythmia, heart failure, mechanical complications, cardiogenic shock)
• valvular cardiac pathology
• obstructive cardiomyopathy
• planned cardiac transplantation
• severe neurological or psychiatric troubles
• loss of autonomy
• other (refusal, language, nursing house, way of life not compatible with follow up, refusal of telephonic contacts)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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555 participants in 3 patient groups

therapeutic education class 1

Other group

Description:

patients in class 1 will have a follow up call with therapeutic education every 3 months. this is the light follow up.

Treatment:

Behavioral: therapeutic education

therapeutic education class 2

Other group

Description:

patients in class 2 will have a follow up call with therapeutic education every month. this is the moderate follow up

Treatment:

Behavioral: therapeutic education

therapeutic education class 3

Other group

Description:

patients in class 3 will have a follow up call with therapeutic education twice a month. this is the heavy follow up.

Treatment:

Behavioral: therapeutic education