Nurse-led Educational Intervention on Heart Failure Patients

NCT ID: NCT05480969

Last Updated: 2022-07-29

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

73 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2019-04-19

Study Completion Date

2020-09-14

Brief Summary

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A randomized controlled study to examine the effect of a nurse-led, home/telephone or telephone-only educational intervention on outcomes of heart failure patients and their caregivers.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Heart Failure

Keywords

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Heart failure management programmes Nurse-led educational interventions Self-care Health-related quality of life Caregiver outcomes

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Intervention group 1

Heart failure educational sessions will be provided by the heart failure-trained nurse to patients and caregivers. These will be delivered through a combination of home visits and telephone calls performed at regular time intervals for a total period of 6 months.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Heart failure educational intervention

Intervention Type OTHER

Educational intervention constitutes of a face-to-face session delivered before hospital discharge and outpatient sessions on regular intervals for a total of 6 months. Outpatient sessions in Intervention group 1 constitute of two home-based sessions on months 1 and 3, combined with weekly telephone calls during month 1 and bi-weekly calls during months 2-6. Outpatient sessions in Intervention group-2 constitute of weekly telephone sessions during month 1 and bi-weekly calls during months 2-6. The pre-discharge session will address self-monitoring and health awareness. Education will be provided by in-person discussion and through printed supporting material. Caregiver education will include understanding heart failure and advice on how to support their patient, manage their own health and well-being and how to get help when needed. During outpatient sessions, repeat education will be done and evaluation of implementation of self-care activities.

Intervention group 2

Heart failure educational sessions will be provided by the heart failure-trained nurse to patients and caregivers. These will be delivered through telephone calls performed at regular time intervals for a total period of 6 months.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Heart failure educational intervention

Intervention Type OTHER

Educational intervention constitutes of a face-to-face session delivered before hospital discharge and outpatient sessions on regular intervals for a total of 6 months. Outpatient sessions in Intervention group 1 constitute of two home-based sessions on months 1 and 3, combined with weekly telephone calls during month 1 and bi-weekly calls during months 2-6. Outpatient sessions in Intervention group-2 constitute of weekly telephone sessions during month 1 and bi-weekly calls during months 2-6. The pre-discharge session will address self-monitoring and health awareness. Education will be provided by in-person discussion and through printed supporting material. Caregiver education will include understanding heart failure and advice on how to support their patient, manage their own health and well-being and how to get help when needed. During outpatient sessions, repeat education will be done and evaluation of implementation of self-care activities.

Control group

Control patients and caregivers will receive usual care for heart failure.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Heart failure educational intervention

Educational intervention constitutes of a face-to-face session delivered before hospital discharge and outpatient sessions on regular intervals for a total of 6 months. Outpatient sessions in Intervention group 1 constitute of two home-based sessions on months 1 and 3, combined with weekly telephone calls during month 1 and bi-weekly calls during months 2-6. Outpatient sessions in Intervention group-2 constitute of weekly telephone sessions during month 1 and bi-weekly calls during months 2-6. The pre-discharge session will address self-monitoring and health awareness. Education will be provided by in-person discussion and through printed supporting material. Caregiver education will include understanding heart failure and advice on how to support their patient, manage their own health and well-being and how to get help when needed. During outpatient sessions, repeat education will be done and evaluation of implementation of self-care activities.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Written informed consent
* Men or women aged ≥18 years old.
* Hospitalized for new-onset or decompensated chronic heart failure.

Exclusion Criteria

* Any severe neuromuscular disease or other disability or mobility problems that preclude performance of six-minute walk test.
* Any severe cognitive dysfunction or psychiatric disease that limit ability to receive education.
* Patients unable to be contacted by phone or other means.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Attikon Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Maria Thodi

Registered Nurse

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Gerasimos Filippatos, Professor

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

2nd Department of Cardiology, Attikon University Hospital

Locations

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Attikon University Hospital

Chaïdári, Attica, Greece

Site Status

Countries

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Greece

References

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Thodi M, Bistola V, Lambrinou E, Keramida K, Nikolopoulos P, Parissis J, Farmakis D, Filippatos G. A randomized trial of a nurse-led educational intervention in patients with heart failure and their caregivers: impact on caregiver outcomes. Eur J Cardiovasc Nurs. 2023 Oct 19;22(7):709-718. doi: 10.1093/eurjcn/zvac118.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 36510826 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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28/18-01-2019

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id