Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT01378247
Multicenter Study of Family Nursing to Treat Heart Failure
Family Focused Nursing for Outpatients With Heart Failure
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 468 (actual)
- Sponsor
- University of Southern Denmark · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
The purpose of this study is to determine whether Family Focused Nursing are effective in the treatment of heart failure outpatients with respect to health-related quality of life.
Detailed description
Quality of life is impaired among patients with heart failure and their next of kin compared to other patients with chronic diseases. Besides, there are still a number of patients who misunderstand or have difficulties remembering the counseling they are provided during the course of illness. International guidelines recommend that the patient's relatives are involved in patient education as well as the treatment. Family interventions might contribute to improvement in quality of life, enhanced illness-management and delayed readmission and mortality among patients with heart failure. However, up till today, only two observational studies have investigated the effect of family intervention on outcomes of treatment for heart failure.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | Family Focused Nursing | All patients receive treatment as usual. Additionally, patients in the intervention arm receives family focused nursing consultations which are structured as outpatient sessions focusing on change, improvement and/or maintenance of family function within cognitive, affective and behavioral knowledge. Each session is organized and individualized according to the wishes and needs for education and counseling of the families within a period of six months. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2011-06-01
- Primary completion
- 2017-01-01
- Completion
- 2017-01-01
- First posted
- 2011-06-22
- Last updated
- 2017-04-18
Locations
3 sites across 1 country: Denmark
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01378247. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.