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Leveraging Home Health Aides to Improve Outcomes in Heart Failure

NCT04239911 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 105

Last updated 2025-06-06

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Summary

The purpose of the study is to determine the effectiveness of an intervention among home health aides caring for adults admitted to home care with a primary diagnosis of heart failure at VNS Health Partners in Care (home care agency). The study will examine the interventions' effect on home health aides' heart failure knowledge and confidence caring for adults with heart failure, as well as on the client's overall health (visits to the emergency department and hospital readmissions).

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

mHealth app

The mHealth app will provide heart failure-specific education to home health aides and allow them to report clinical observations and ask nurses questions in real-time.

BEHAVIORAL

Virtual training course

Virtual training course on heart failure for home health aides.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

    collaborator NIH

  • Weill Medical College of Cornell University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Madeline R Sterling, MD, MPH, MS · Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-05-16
Primary Completion
2024-08-17
Completion
2024-08-17

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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