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A Psychosocial Dyadic Programme for Patients With Heart Failure and Their Family Caregivers

NCT05864469 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 192

Last updated 2025-09-24

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Summary

The overall aim of the study is to evaluate the effects of a psychosocial dyadic intervention on mutuality, psychological strengths (i.e., resilience and self-compassion), psychological distress (i.e., anxiety and depression), and QoL outcomes of HF patients and caregivers. The HF patient-caregiver dyads will be randomly allocated to the intervention group to receive a 12-week relationship-focused psychosocial dyadic intervention, or to the control group to receive the usual care provided by the clinical team in the hospital.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

12-week psychosocial dyadic intervention

Comprising six weekly 60-min telephone-based sessions, followed by two weekly and two bi-weekly telephone follow-ups.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The University of Hong Kong

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Can Xiong, PhD student · The University of Hong Kong

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-05-30
Primary Completion
2025-02-02
Completion
2025-02-02

Countries

  • China

Study Locations

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Diseases

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