Implementation and Evaluation of Hospital-to-Home Transitional Care Intervention in Patients with Chronic Heart Failure

NCT ID: NCT06779227

Last Updated: 2025-01-16

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 60 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2021-10-15
• Study Completion Date: 2022-12-25

Brief Summary

This study lasted for a total of three months. The purpose is to build a hospital-family transitional nursing intervention program for patients with chronic heart failure, and to explore the effectiveness of the program on the self-management of patients with chronic heart failure, in order to provide certain empirical research for the clinical intervention of transitional nursing for patients with chronic heart failure. If you have any questions or difficulties, you can withdraw from this study at any time, which will not affect your treatment and nursing. The purpose of this study is to improve your self-care level and prevent your re-admission. It will not harm your physical and mental health and will not have a negative impact on the relationship between patients and nursing. You participate in this study and The personal data in the study is confidential, and any public report on the results of this study will not disclose your personal identity.

Conditions

Chronic Heart Failure

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

control group

The control group received routine care.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Intervention group

The intervention group received a transitional care intervention mainly focused on the transitional care model (TCM).

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Hospital family transitional nursing intervention

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The intervention group received a transitional care intervention mainly focused on the transitional care model (TCM).

Interventions

Hospital family transitional nursing intervention

The intervention group received a transitional care intervention mainly focused on the transitional care model (TCM).

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• It meets the diagnostic criteria of the New York Heart Association (NYHA) for CHF, and the heart function level is II to III;
• Age ≥18 years old;
• The condition is stable and meets the standard of being discharged from the hospital;
• Clear consciousness, no communication barriers, able to understand and fill in the questionnaire correctly;
• Informed consent and voluntary participation in this study.

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients with hepato-renal disfunction, sequelae of stroke, dementia;
• Patients with a history of mental disorders or already having mental disorders, critically ill patients.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Zhi-fen Feng

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Zhi-fen Feng

Associate Professor, School of Nursing and Health, Henan University

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Institute of Nursing and Health, School of Nursing and Health, Henan University

Kaifeng, Henan, China

Countries

China

References

Feng ZF, Liu Y, Salvador JT, Ala MB, Nery MAC, Huang XY, Zhang L, Liu S. Implementation and evaluation of hospital-to-home transitional care intervention in patients with chronic heart failure. BMC Nurs. 2025 Jul 1;24(1):717. doi: 10.1186/s12912-025-03447-5.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 40597265 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

HUSOM2021-289

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id