NCT03820674

A Telerehabilitation Intervention for People With Heart Failure and Chronic Fatigue

A Telerehabilitation Intervention to Reduce the Impact of Fatigue in People With Congestive Heart Failure and Chronic Fatigue

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 23 (actual)
• Sponsor: East Carolina University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study compares the effectiveness of a 6-week Energy Conservation + Problem Solving Therapy Intervention to Health Education Intervention for reducing the fatigue impact and fatigue level and improving the level of participation in instrumental, leisure, and social activities in people with heart failure associated fatigue. Half of the participants received Energy Conservation + Problem Solving Therapy Intervention, and the other half received Health Education Intervention.

Detailed description

Energy Conservation+Problem Solving Therapy (EC+PST) Intervention: In this study, the EC+PST Intervention will ideally occur twice a week for 6 weeks with each session lasting approximately 30 minutes. The intervention will be individually delivered via telehealth; therefore, participants will receive the intervention in their home to minimize fatigue from the intervention. Health Education Intervention: The Health Education Intervention will occur once a week for 6 weeks with each session lasting approximately 30 minutes. The Health Education Intervention will be delivered via telehealth; therefore, participants will receive the intervention at their convenient quiet place to minimize fatigue from the intervention.

Conditions

• Heart Failure

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Energy Conservation plus Problem Solving Therapy	EC-PST is a client-centered intervention aiming to guide people with chronic fatigue to create their own solutions so that they can generalize those learned solutions and strategies to other fatigue-related problems even after completing the study participation. Some of the topics covered during the first two introductory sessions are facts regarding fatigue, budgeting and banking energy, and the introduction of EC+PST Intervention.
OTHER	Health Education Intervention	The interventionist will be the PI, an occupational therapist (co-I), or OT graduate student who will be trained in the health education topics. During the Health Education sessions, participants will be educated on health-related topics relevant to CHF and EC strategies, although they will not learn how to apply the information to their daily life. Health Education Workbook containing information on the topics taught during the sessions will be provided during the Pretest visit and used throughout the Health Education sessions.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-06-17
• Primary completion: 2018-05-02
• Completion: 2019-05-01
• First posted: 2019-01-29
• Last updated: 2020-01-29