NCT05810896

AF at Home: A Virtual Education Program for Patients With Atrial Fibrillation (AF)

Improving Outpatient Comprehensive Atrial Fibrillation Care Across Central North Carolina Through Direct Primary Care and Patient Engagement

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 300 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of this study is to determine the effectiveness of a direct-to-patient virtual education program ("AF at Home") for adults with atrial fibrillation (AF). The main questions this study aims to answer are: 1. Will participants in the educational program have improvement in quality of life, self-monitoring, and self-management strategies after program completion? 2. Will patient level quality of AF care improve for participants in the educational program? Participants will be asked to: * Participate in six hours of virtual education sessions over three weeks via Zoom. * Complete online questionnaires before the program starts and after its completion.

Conditions

• Atrial Fibrillation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	AF at Home	The AF at Home education program will be delivered via Zoom videoconferencing technology and will include 6, 1-hour long sessions that involve education on AF self-monitoring and self-management. Each session will include a didactic presentation and open Q\&A. Supplementary educations materials will be made available to participants.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-04-12
• Primary completion: 2026-02-01
• Completion: 2026-06-01
• First posted: 2023-04-13
• Last updated: 2025-06-18

Locations

3 sites across 1 country: United States