The effect of clinical follow-up on quality of life and re-admission of patients with heart failure
Phase 2
Recruiting
- Conditions
- Heart Failure.Heart failure, unspecified
- Registration Number
- IRCT20100911004728N3
- Lead Sponsor
- Vice Chancellor for research of Kerman University of Medical Sciences
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 130
Inclusion Criteria
Patients with heart failure
Who have tendency to participate in research
ejection Fraction =< 40 %
Pass at least one year from diagnosis
New York Heart Association class III/IV heart failure
Access to Follow-up for at least 3 month
Exclusion Criteria
Previous history of dementia or other diseases based on medical records
Valvular disease requiring surgery
Other diseases that require readmission
Work in health related professions such as medicine
Heart transplantation has been done on him/her (Heart transplantation history )
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Quality of Life. Timepoint: Before intervention, one, two and three months after discharge. Method of measurement: Heart failure Quality of life Questionnaire.;Readmission. Timepoint: Three months after Discharge. Method of measurement: Follow up.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method