Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT00226681
Nurses Helping Sudden Cardiac Arrest Survivors Recover After Getting An Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD)
Nursing Interventions Following Sudden Cardiac Arrest
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- Phase 1
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 150 (actual)
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) · NIH
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 12 Years – 90 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
To determine if an education and support nursing intervention program helped sudden cardiac arrest survivors adjust to the event and to getting an ICD
Detailed description
This study is one of the first large randomized clinical trials of nursing interventions aimed at improving health outcomes after receiving an ICD. Written informed consent was used in the study.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | Nursing Telephone Support Protocol | |
| BEHAVIORAL | Usual Care |
Timeline
- Start date
- 1999-09-01
- Primary completion
- 2004-08-01
- Completion
- 2004-08-01
- First posted
- 2005-09-27
- Last updated
- 2008-09-10
Locations
1 site across 1 country: United States
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00226681. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.