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Nutritional Orientations and Adherence, Nutritional Status, Clinical and Life Quality Parameters of Heart Failure (HF) Patients

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Nutrition
Heart Failure
Interventions
Behavioral: Nutritional education
Registration Number
NCT00957814
Lead Sponsor
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Brief Summary

The nutritional systematic orientations in outpatients with heart failure throughout 1 year in comparison to conventional treatment is estimated to lead to higher nutritional treatment adherence and improved nutritional status, clinical and life quality parameters.

Detailed Description

To evaluate the impact of systematic nutritional orientation on adherence to diet and relation to clinical, life quality and nutritional knowledge parameters in heart failure outpatients.

* To evaluate the impact of systematic nutritional orientation on nutritional status;

* To evaluate the impact of nutritional systematic orientation on dietary patterns

* To evaluate the impact of systematic nutritional orientation on clinical and biochemical parameters

* To evaluate the impact of nutritional systematic orientation on life quality

* To evaluate the impact of nutritional systematic orientation on nutritional knowledge

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
46
Inclusion Criteria
  • >= 18 years old
  • Outpatients from the HF Ambulatory (HCPA)
  • Functional class I and II (NYHA)
Exclusion Criteria
  • Outpatient who had received any orientation from a nutritionist in the last 6 months
  • Outpatients which has not received nursing orientation in the ambulatory,
  • Patients from other NYHA class
  • Non alphabetized

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
ControlNutritional educationUsual care with medical and nursing staff
InterventionNutritional educationUsual care with medical and nursing staff and additional nutritional guidance about diet and its relationship with disease, sources of nutrients, and reduction of dietary sodium and fats. Enforcement of the nutritional guidance was performed after 4 weeks.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Diet adherence1 year
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Knowledge about nutrition, nutritional status, biochemical parameters and life quality1 year
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