A Telerehabilitation Intervention for People With Heart Failure and Chronic Fatigue

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

23 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2016-06-17

Study Completion Date

2019-05-01

Brief Summary

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This study compares the effectiveness of a 6-week Energy Conservation + Problem Solving Therapy Intervention to Health Education Intervention for reducing the fatigue impact and fatigue level and improving the level of participation in instrumental, leisure, and social activities in people with heart failure associated fatigue. Half of the participants received Energy Conservation + Problem Solving Therapy Intervention, and the other half received Health Education Intervention.

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Detailed Description

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Energy Conservation+Problem Solving Therapy (EC+PST) Intervention: In this study, the EC+PST Intervention will ideally occur twice a week for 6 weeks with each session lasting approximately 30 minutes. The intervention will be individually delivered via telehealth; therefore, participants will receive the intervention in their home to minimize fatigue from the intervention.

Health Education Intervention: The Health Education Intervention will occur once a week for 6 weeks with each session lasting approximately 30 minutes. The Health Education Intervention will be delivered via telehealth; therefore, participants will receive the intervention at their convenient quiet place to minimize fatigue from the intervention.

Conditions

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Heart Failure

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Both groups received 6-week interventions.

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants

Participants are blinded to their group assignment. Assessors and interventionists were not blinded to the group assignment.

Study Groups

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Energy Conservation plus Problem Solving Therapy Intervention

Receiving experimental intervention

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Energy Conservation plus Problem Solving Therapy

Intervention Type OTHER

EC-PST is a client-centered intervention aiming to guide people with chronic fatigue to create their own solutions so that they can generalize those learned solutions and strategies to other fatigue-related problems even after completing the study participation. Some of the topics covered during the first two introductory sessions are facts regarding fatigue, budgeting and banking energy, and the introduction of EC+PST Intervention.

Health Education Intervention

Receiving control intervention

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Health Education Intervention

Intervention Type OTHER

The interventionist will be the PI, an occupational therapist (co-I), or OT graduate student who will be trained in the health education topics. During the Health Education sessions, participants will be educated on health-related topics relevant to CHF and EC strategies, although they will not learn how to apply the information to their daily life. Health Education Workbook containing information on the topics taught during the sessions will be provided during the Pretest visit and used throughout the Health Education sessions.

Interventions

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Energy Conservation plus Problem Solving Therapy

EC-PST is a client-centered intervention aiming to guide people with chronic fatigue to create their own solutions so that they can generalize those learned solutions and strategies to other fatigue-related problems even after completing the study participation. Some of the topics covered during the first two introductory sessions are facts regarding fatigue, budgeting and banking energy, and the introduction of EC+PST Intervention.

Intervention Type OTHER

Health Education Intervention

The interventionist will be the PI, an occupational therapist (co-I), or OT graduate student who will be trained in the health education topics. During the Health Education sessions, participants will be educated on health-related topics relevant to CHF and EC strategies, although they will not learn how to apply the information to their daily life. Health Education Workbook containing information on the topics taught during the sessions will be provided during the Pretest visit and used throughout the Health Education sessions.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

(a) a minimum 6 months since diagnosed with HF and 3 months post-hospitalization, (b) reporting of moderate to severe fatigue by scoring ≥4 according to Fatigue Severity Scale, (c) living in the community, (d) having access to the internet or telephone in the place of residence, (e) having functional English fluency, and (f) having functional vision to operate the tablet computer.

Exclusion Criteria

1. had a score of ≥9 in Short Blessed Test indicating cognitive impairment
2. were classified as having New York Heart Association (NYHA) Functional Classification level IV on their medical record

Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No