NCT05480969

Nurse-led Educational Intervention on Heart Failure Patients

The Effect of a Nurse-led Educational Intervention on Self-management and Prognosis of Patients With Heart Failure

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 73 (actual)
• Sponsor: Attikon Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

A randomized controlled study to examine the effect of a nurse-led, home/telephone or telephone-only educational intervention on outcomes of heart failure patients and their caregivers.

Conditions

• Heart Failure

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Heart failure educational intervention	Educational intervention constitutes of a face-to-face session delivered before hospital discharge and outpatient sessions on regular intervals for a total of 6 months. Outpatient sessions in Intervention group 1 constitute of two home-based sessions on months 1 and 3, combined with weekly telephone calls during month 1 and bi-weekly calls during months 2-6. Outpatient sessions in Intervention group-2 constitute of weekly telephone sessions during month 1 and bi-weekly calls during months 2-6. The pre-discharge session will address self-monitoring and health awareness. Education will be provided by in-person discussion and through printed supporting material. Caregiver education will include understanding heart failure and advice on how to support their patient, manage their own health and well-being and how to get help when needed. During outpatient sessions, repeat education will be done and evaluation of implementation of self-care activities.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-04-19
• Primary completion: 2020-09-14
• Completion: 2020-09-14
• First posted: 2022-07-29
• Last updated: 2022-07-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Greece