NCT01905176

Management of Patients With HF by Using Educational or Educational & Telephone or Telephone Interventions and Support in Cyprus

The Effectiveness of Multiple Nursing Interventions, for Promoting Heart Failure Self-care, on Patients' Quality of Life and Heart Failure Outcomes: A Randomized Control Trial.

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 300 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Cyprus University of Technology · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The current trial aims to examine the effectiveness of three different types of nursing interventions, on heart failure (HF) patients' quality of life and on HF outcomes, compared to the usual care. The interventions include promotion of self-care practices through education and support; they are either provided before discharge, post-discharge through telephone, or both.

Detailed description

The current trial aims to examine the effectiveness of three different types of nursing interventions, on heart failure (HF) patients' quality of life and on HF outcomes, compared to the usual care. The interventions include promotion of self-care practices through education and support. HF patients admitted in the public hospitals of the Cyprus Republic are screened for eligibility. Consented patients who meet the inclusion criteria are recruited before their discharge, and are randomly allocated to one of the four groups of the trial. Patients of the three intervention groups receive educational intervention and support, before discharge or post-discharge through telephone, or both. Patients of the fourth group receive the usual care (control group). The patients' follow up period is 3 months. The main purpose of the study is to determine whether the combination of predischarge education/support and tele-management is more efficient in improving HF outcomes, rather than the in-person and telephonic components alone. Outcome measures include quality of life and HF events (re-admissions and death) and time to HF event.

Conditions

• Heart Failure

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	In person education on heart failure topics before discharge	Individualized in-person education on HF topics aiming to promote self-care practices by using educational electronic material and booklet
OTHER	Telephone support and education post-discharge	Individualized telephone support/education of three months duration, on HF topics, aiming to promote self-care practices while evaluating patients' current status and condition
OTHER	Pre-discharge in person education and post-discharge telephone education and support	Patients receive both interventions of Arm 1 \& 2: individualized pre-discharge counseling/education along with telephone follow-up support for three months, following the same line as mentioned in Arms 1 \& 2

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-04-01
• Primary completion: 2013-12-01
• Completion: 2014-05-01
• First posted: 2013-07-23
• Last updated: 2013-07-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Cyprus