Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT02415751
The Impact of a Heart Failure Review on Self-Care Knowledge, Adherence and Clinical Outcomes
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 57 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Creighton University · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 19 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
This study is assessing the effects of a new heart failure self-care education program in the Nebraska Heart Institute Heart Improvement Clinic. The new education program will consist of an initial intensive self-care education session with the Principal Investigator or her nurse practitioner. Topics to be discussed include medications, sodium and fluid consumption, alcohol restriction, exercise, preventive behaviors, and monitoring of signs and symptoms. As recommended in the ACCF/AHA guidelines, this education will be repeated on an annual basis as studies have shown that the impact of HF education is not always durable and must be a continual process. This study will assess the impact of this review on their medication knowledge, disease state knowledge, quality of life, disease state progression and clinical outcomes such as ejection fraction and number of hospitalizations.
Detailed description
This is an observational study as all patients in the heart failure clinic, regardless of whether or not they will choose to be in the study, will receive heart failure self-care education from now on.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | heart failure self-care education | It is defined as a naturalistic decision-making process that patients use in the choice of behaviors that maintain physiological stability (symptom monitoring and treatment adherence) and the response to symptoms when they occur (Riegel 2004). This includes following advice regarding medications, sodium and water consumption, alcohol restriction, exercise, preventive behaviors, and monitoring of signs and symptoms. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2015-06-01
- Primary completion
- 2019-01-22
- Completion
- 2019-01-22
- First posted
- 2015-04-14
- Last updated
- 2019-01-30
Locations
2 sites across 1 country: United States
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT02415751. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.