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Enhancing Caregiver Support for Heart Failure Patients: the CarePartner Study

NCT00555360 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 372

Last updated 2015-09-15

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Summary

Informal caregivers, assisted by health information technology may help to fill the gaps in VA care management of heart failure patients by enhancing support for patients' treatment adherence, behavior changes, and symptom monitoring.

Conditions

  • Heart Failure, Congestive

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

HITCM+CP

Weekly automated assessment calls with follow-up by a care manager and a CarePartner for 12 months. Baseline, 6-month and 12-month follow-up.

BEHAVIORAL

HITCM only

Weekly automated assessment calls with follow-up by a care manager for 12 months. Baseline, 6-month and 12-month follow-up.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • John D. Piette, PhD · VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-06-30
Primary Completion
2013-01-31
Completion
2014-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

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