A Tele-Health Symptom Management Program for Patients With Heart Failure: Pall-Heart

NCT ID: NCT04120857

Last Updated: 2020-11-05

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

30 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2019-06-01

Study Completion Date

2020-09-30

Brief Summary

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Heart failure is common in adults and is the most common hospital diagnosis in older adults. Patients with heart failure suffer numerous distressing symptoms daily. Although palliative care can improve suffering, rural-dwelling heart failure patients have poor access to specialized palliative care. The investigators propose to pilot test a tele-health palliative care intervention, PALL-HEART, in rural dwelling heart failure patients who live in Virginia and Kentucky.

Study specific objectives are:

Primary Aims:

* AIM 1: Compare HF patients who participate in a home-delivered tablet-based HF health education and gentle stretching intervention, to a health education (HE) group on: a) HF symptoms (weight gain, breathlessness, fatigue), b) psychological symptoms (depression, diminished QOL, resilience, self-care, and heart rate variability), c) physical function (endurance, strength, balance), and d) health care utilization rates (ED visits, office visits, hospitalizations).
* Hypothesis 1: HF symptoms (weight gain, breathlessness, fatigue), psychological symptoms (depression, diminished QOL, resilience, self-care), physical function (endurance, strength, balance) will improve in the intervention group.
* Hypothesis 2: Health care utilization rates (ED visits, office visits, hospitalizations) will decrease in the intervention group.

Secondary:

* AIM 2: Acceptability - Acceptability of the intervention will be determined using: a) participation and satisfaction rates (participant logs), b) intervention retention rates, and c) barriers to participation (technology and participant motivation issues).
* Hypothesis: Subjects in the intervention group will have \>80% participation and satisfaction rates and be willing to identify barriers to participation.

acceptability of the intervention for future refinement and large scale testing.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Heart Failure

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Educational Control Group

Education provided for optional use

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Gentle Stretching and Education

Gentle Stretching for 60 minutes twice weekly

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Gentle Stretching

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

60 minutes fo gentle stretching twice weekly for 8 weeks

Interventions

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Gentle Stretching

60 minutes fo gentle stretching twice weekly for 8 weeks

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

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Exercise

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction or Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction as seen by problem list in the EMR, is a patient in the heart failure clinic, or general cardiology clinic.
* ability to read, write and understand English;
* agree to participate and give informed consent;
* 19 years of age and older;
* telephone access;
* and NYHA class I-III with no changes in medications in 30 days (i.e. medical therapy is optimized).

Exclusion Criteria

* are pregnant and/or breast feeding (self-reported)
* have a history of non-adherence with medications (as described by their provider or medical record);
* have had a hospitalization within the last 3 months for HF;
* have unstable angina; CABG, MI or biventricular pacemaker less than 6 weeks prior;
* have orthopedic impediments to stretching exercise;
* have severe COPD with a forced expiratory volume in one second less than 1 liter as measured by spirometry;
* have severe stenotic valvular disease;
* have a history of resuscitated sudden cardiac death without subsequent placement of an implantable cardioverter defibrillator;
* exercise more than 3 times weekly; currently engage in yoga at least 1 time per week;
* have cognitive impairment (as measured by the Mini-Cog)
* are living in a nursing home
* history of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PASP\>60mmHg)
* other serious life-limiting co-morbidity, e.g. end stage cancer
* post-heart transplant (s/p OHT) or Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD)
* New York Heart Association Functional Class IV
Minimum Eligible Age

19 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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University of Kentucky

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Virginia

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Jill Howie Esquivel, PhD

Associate Professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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University of Virginia

Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

References

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Other Identifiers

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21320

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id