Does an adapted cardiac rehabilitation programme delivered in a hospice for patients with advanced chronic heart failure have an impact on quality of life?
- Conditions
- Advanced Chronic Heart FailureCirculatory SystemChronic ischaemic heart disease
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN01423876
- Lead Sponsor
- Oxford Brookes University (UK)
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 20
1. Diagnosed with Chronic Heart Failure and assessed as New York Heart Association (NYHA) class III/IV
2. Assessed as meeting Strategic Network's criteria defining End of Life by the Consultant Cardiologist (Heart Failure Lead) and community Heart Failure Nurse Specialist. The significant criteria for advanced disease, is that no further treatment options are available for the patient, and so treatment options are symptom management and palliative support.
3. Survival has been assessed as being greater than 10 weeks from the start of the programme by the Community Heart Failure Nurse Specialist who is the primary health professional carer.
4. Cognitively intact
1. Unable to read (or have translated) English
2. Inability to undertake the level of exercise within the intervention
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
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