NCT01286480

Congenital Heart Adolescents: Program of Transition Evaluation Research

Evaluation of Novel Transition Interventions for Youth With Congenital Heart Disease

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 66 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Alberta · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 15 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The objective of this study is to evaluate the potential role of a cardiology clinic-based educational intervention for 15 to 17 year olds with congenital heart disease (CHD) and their parents, and to determine whether this intervention results in improved self-management skills (e.g., renewing medication prescriptions), teens having greater knowledge of their heart condition, and more teen and parent satisfaction with services. The results of this study will form the basis for a website that in turn may serve as an additional means of providing transition interventions. The results of this study may also be applicable to youth with other special health care needs.

Conditions

• Congenital Heart Defects

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Clinic-based Educational Intervention	This will involve a 60 minute interaction between the teen and an advanced practice nurse (APN) in the cardiology clinic. A MyHealth passport will be created covering the name of the teen's cardiac condition, previous cardiac interventions, and name and purpose of the teen's medications. Potential late cardiac complications and contact names and location of local adult CHD cardiologists will also be reviewed. Three scenarios regarding adolescent risk taking behaviors (written in the 3rd person) will be presented to the teen who will be asked what advice he/she would offer to the teen in each of those scenarios. The teen will be given a study email address and encouraged to contact the APN by email or text messaging with follow-up questions. If no contact is initiated after 1 week, the APN will email or text (based on preference) the youth, to discuss additional questions.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-01-01
• Primary completion: 2013-11-01
• Completion: 2013-12-01
• First posted: 2011-01-31
• Last updated: 2017-06-26
• Results posted: 2017-06-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada