Food as Medicine: Providing Medically Appropriate Meals to Patients After Discharge for Congestive Heart Failure Exacerbation
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Heart Failure
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Francisco
- Enrollment
- 192
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Change in the overall Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ) scores from baseline to one month by study arm
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 4 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
This is a prospective, randomized, wait-list controlled study examining the impact of providing medically appropriate meals to patients discharged from Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital after acute decompensated heart failure. Upon discharge, patients will be randomized to either the intervention or wait list control arm. The intervention is the delivery of medically appropriate meals and groceries to patients' homes in a tapered manner over five months (the equivalent of three meals a day for 60 days, then the equivalent of two meals a day for 30 days, then the equivalent of one meal a day for 60 days) and monthly assessments with a registered dietician (RD). All food and RD assessments are administered via a community partner, Project Open Hand, as a modification of current offerings for clients at Project Open Hand. Subjects randomized into the wait list control arm will receive the food intervention five months after discharge. The study's primary aim is to examine the impact of nutritional support on the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire scores. In addition, the study aims to examine the impact of nutritional support on healthcare utilization (particularly readmission rates and emergency room utilization), dietary change, medication adherence, and quality of life.
Detailed Description
The San Francisco Department of Public Health, University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), and Project Open Hand (POH), a community based organization in San Francisco which provides meals and groceries to chronically ill clients in the Bay Area, have partnered to conduct a prospective, randomized, wait-list controlled study examining the impact of providing medically appropriate meals and registered dietician (RD) support to patients discharged from Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital after acute decompensated heart failure. Before discharge, patients will be randomized to either the intervention or wait list control arm. The intervention consists of the delivery of medically appropriate meals and/or groceries to participants' homes in a tapered manner over five months (the equivalent of three meals a day for 60 days, then the equivalent of two meals a day for 30 days, then the equivalent of one meal a day for 60 days) and monthly nutrition education with a registered dietician (RD). All food and nutritional education are administered by POH staff and RDs. Participants randomized into the wait list control arm will receive the food intervention five months after discharge. The study's primary aim is to examine the impact of nutritional support on the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire scores. In addition, the study aims to examine the impact of nutritional support on healthcare utilization (particularly readmission rates and emergency room utilization), dietary change, medication adherence, and quality of life. The investigators will assess outcomes at baseline while patients are hospitalized, 1 month after discharge, and 5 months after discharge using quantitative surveys. The investigators will call participants at 3 months and 4 months after discharge with a shorter quantitative survey assessing a subset of outcome measures. In addition, the investigators will conduct a qualitative interview near the conclusion of the intervention in a subset of participants to understand perceived impacts of the intervention as well as barriers and facilitators to heart failure care.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Adults hospitalized at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG) with acute decompensated heart failure/congestive heart failure exacerbation
- •Adults with their primary residence within San Francisco
- •Age: \>18 years old
- •Languages: English or Spanish
- •Housed at a location where they would be able to securely receive, store and reheat food
Exclusion Criteria
- •Patients with severe or critical aortic stenosis.
- •Patients with six or more hospital admissions within the last twelve months
- •Patients who are being discharged to a living facility that provides meals to residents.
- •Patients who anticipate moving from their current housing situation to one that does not meet our inclusion criteria within six months of enrollment.
- •Patients who are part of meal provision program that provides more than 7 meals a week to the patient.
- •Patients who are unable to feed themselves and do not have adequate support to help them with feeding.
- •Patients with limited physical, cognitive, or behavioral abilities that would interfere with their ability to follow-up with a study as determined by their ability to receive the Project Open Hand services and follow up with survey interviews
- •Patients with anticipated life expectancy of less than a year.
- •Patients who lack capacity to consent to a research study.
- •Patients currently requiring dialysis or determined to be in need of dialysis in the next 6 months.
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Change in the overall Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ) scores from baseline to one month by study arm
Time Frame: Baseline and one month
The Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire is a 23-item instrument that quantifies physical function, symptoms (frequency, severity and recent change), social function, self-efficacy and knowledge, and quality of life. An overall summary score can be derived from the physical function, symptom (frequency and severity), social function and quality of life domains. Scores are transformed to a range of 0-100, in which higher scores reflect better health status.The change in the overall score from baseline to one month will be reported.
Change in the clinical summary Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ) scores from baseline to one month by study arm
Time Frame: Baseline and one month
The Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire is a 23-item instrument that quantifies physical function, symptoms (frequency, severity and recent change), social function, self-efficacy and knowledge, and quality of life. A clinical summary score can be obtained from the symptom frequency and burden domains and the physical limitation domain. Scores are transformed to a range of 0-100, in which higher scores reflect better health status.The change in the clinical summary score from baseline to one month will be reported by study arm.
Change in the physical domain Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ) scores from baseline to five months by study arm
Time Frame: Baseline and five months
The Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire is a 23-item instrument that quantifies physical function, symptoms (frequency, severity and recent change), social function, self-efficacy and knowledge, and quality of life. Scores from the physical domain can be transformed to 0 to 100 , in which higher scores reflects better health status.The change in the physical domain score from baseline to five months will be reported by study arm.
Change in the overall Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ) scores from baseline to five months by study arm
Time Frame: Baseline and five months
The Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire is a 23-item instrument that quantifies physical function, symptoms (frequency, severity and recent change), social function, self-efficacy and knowledge, and quality of life. An overall summary score can be derived from the physical function, symptom (frequency and severity), social function and quality of life domains. Scores are transformed to a range of 0-100, in which higher scores reflect better health status. The change in the overall score from baseline to five months will be reported.
Change in the clinical summary Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ) scores from baseline to five months by study arm
Time Frame: Baseline and five months
The Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire is a 23-item instrument that quantifies physical function, symptoms (frequency, severity and recent change), social function, self-efficacy and knowledge, and quality of life. A clinical summary score can be obtained from the symptom frequency and burden domains and the physical limitation domain. Scores are transformed to a range of 0-100, in which higher scores reflect better health status.The change in the clinical summary score from baseline to five months will be reported by study arm.
Change in the physical domain Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ) scores from baseline to one month by study arm
Time Frame: Baseline and one month
The Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire is a 23-item instrument that quantifies physical function, symptoms (frequency, severity and recent change), social function, self-efficacy and knowledge, and quality of life. Scores from the physical domain can be transformed to 0 to 100 , in which higher scores reflects better health status.The change in the physical domain score from baseline to one month will be reported by study arm.
Secondary Outcomes
- Hospital admissions from baseline to 5 month, by study arm(Baseline and 5 months)
- Emergency room utilization at any hospital from baseline to 1 month, by study arm.(Baseline and 1 month)
- Emergency room utilization at any hospital from baseline to 5 month, by study arm.(Baseline and 5 months)
- Change in overall health-related quality of life from baseline to five months, by study arm(Baseline and five months)
- Change in consumption of food high in sodium from baseline to five months by study arm.(Baseline and five moths)
- Change in consumption of food high in saturated fat consumption from baseline to five months by study arm.(Baseline and five months)
- Hospital admissions from baseline to 1 month, by study arm(Baseline and 1 month)
- Change in food insecurity severity from baseline to one month by study arm(Baseline and 1 month)
- Change in food insecurity severity from baseline to five months by study arm(Baseline and 5 months)
- Change in depressive symptoms from baseline to five months, by study arm(Baseline and five months)
- Change in medication adherence from baseline to five months, by study arm(Baseline and five months)