Symptom Recognition Improves Self-care in Patients With Heart Failure.

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Status: Completed

Conditions: Symptoms and Signs; Heart Failure

Treatments: Behavioral: Symptom recognition

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04892004

SympRecgHF

Details and patient eligibility

About

Describe a behaviour intervention to analyse self-care engagement in heart failure patients. Allocate patients with heart failure into 2 arms study: a control group and an intervention group.

Full description

According to medical record at admission, a pilot study was described and included 63 patients in New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional class II-III. Patients were recruited in a hospital setting after discharge from a heart failure unit.

Patients were allocated into a control group (n=33) and an intervention group (n=30) through the computerised random allocation generator at http://random.org.

The pilot study was performed during three months per patient, with four moments of assessment (baseline, first-week follow-up, first-month follow-up, third-month follow-up).

Enrollment: 63 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• adults aged >18 years old, with diagnosed HF and with no cognitive disability associated.

Exclusion criteria

• patients placed on the heart transplant waiting list and patients in class IV NYHA.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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63 participants in 2 patient groups

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Standard information defined as the standard care, unplanned, provided for Heart Failure patients and not personalized.

Interventional group

Experimental group

Description:

A nurse provides the intervention with expertise in Heart Failure and addresses reinforcements on: a) an explanation on signs and symptoms of Heart Failure and how to recognise them; b) importance on daily fluid management, by planning 1.5-2 litres of liquids per day (e.g., soup, milk, coffee, water, tea and yoghurts); and c) when doctors or nurses should be contacted (when symptoms escalation or a weight gain of 2 kg in three days or 5 kg in a week were detected).

Treatment:

Behavioral: Symptom recognition