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

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2009-08-11
• Study First Submitted QC: 2009-08-11
• Study First Posted: 2009-08-12
• Study Start: 2009-09
• Primary Completion: 2010-09
• Study Completion: 2010-11
• Status Verified: 2016-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-10-25
• Last Update Posted: 2016-10-27

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

Group	Intervention	Description
Control	Nutritional education	Usual care with medical and nursing staff
Intervention	Nutritional education	Usual 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

Name	Time	Method
Diet adherence	1 year

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Knowledge about nutrition, nutritional status, biochemical parameters and life quality	1 year