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Nurse-led Educational Intervention on Heart Failure Patients

NCT05480969 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 73

Last updated 2022-07-29

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Summary

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.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

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.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Attikon Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Gerasimos Filippatos, Professor · 2nd Department of Cardiology, Attikon University Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-04-19
Primary Completion
2020-09-14
Completion
2020-09-14

Countries

  • Greece

Study Locations

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