NCT06090734

Development and Evaluation of 'My Voice': a Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 244 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 21 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study aims to develop and evaluate a web-based interactive platform (called 'My Voice') that helps to educate patients with heart failure and their caregivers about heart failure, identify their goals for end-of-life care, and share these with their caregivers and doctors.

Detailed description

The research study consists of 3 phases: 1. Usability testing - to assess the usability of 'My Voice' with patients with heart failure, their caregivers and healthcare providers, 2. Pilot testing - to test the feasibility of implementation and workflow of 'My Voice' and the survey questionnaires with a small group of participants and, 3. Randomized controlled trial- to evaluate the effectiveness of 'My Voice' with a control group who do not receive the intervention in improving patient outcomes

Conditions

• Advance Care Planning
• Heart Failure

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	My Voice	The web intervention educates patients about their illness and supports them to make their own Advance Care Planning decisions, update these decisions frequently as their clinical condition changes, and to make the ACP process easier and more accessible. The intervention aims to shift implementation of ACP from a provider-led one-time model to a patient-led dynamic model.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-03-07
• Primary completion: 2026-02-01
• Completion: 2026-02-01
• First posted: 2023-10-19
• Last updated: 2025-03-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Singapore