Online Psychological Support Group for Patients With Heart Failure and Depression
- Conditions
- Heart FailureDepression
- Interventions
- Other: Standard multidisciplinary careOther: Online psychological support group
- Registration Number
- NCT05948241
- Lead Sponsor
- Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul
- Brief Summary
Heart failure is a chronic disease, being the second cause of death in Brazil. Currently, it is estimated that 6.4 million Brazilians suffer from this disease. The higher number of rehospitalization, lower survival of these individuals. There are recommendations from Societies of Cardiology for the inclusion of effective self-care for patients with chronic HF, intend greater control of symptoms, greater adherence to treatment and, consequently, decrease of rehospitalization. One of the pillars of self-care's education for chronic patients recommended by the Health Ministry is the management of the patient's emotional aspects. These have been undertreated in most studies. The prevalence of depression among patients with HF is high and ranges from 41% to 72%, and the assessment with the BDI-II, which is the gold standard used, is 67%. Patients with HF and depression have greater difficulty in adhering to treatment and poor maintenance of self-care. Also, they present 4 times more risk of rehospitalization/mortality. Faced with this problem, this project was designed, proposing an online psychological support group for patients with heart failure and depression, primarily aimed at improving self-care, adherence and secondarily at reducing the rates of depression and readmission.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 132
- Patients diagnosed with heart failure
- Age between 18 and 79 years B)
- After hospital discharge
- Depression (BDI-II score above 14 points)
- Acceptance of the Term of Consent;
- Patients with dementia
- Communication barriers
- Octogenarians
- People unable to access the internet for the intervention
- Who declined to participate;
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Standard treatment Standard multidisciplinary care The control group will undergo 1 consultation with the multidisciplinary team, offered as standard treatment at the Heart Failure outpatient clinic of the Institute of Cardiology, with the areas: medicine, nutritionist and psychology. Monitoring with a multidisciplinary team is the gold standard for monitoring patients with HF and its multiple comorbidities. These patients are followed up on average every 3 months in this outpatient clinic. Online psychological support group Online psychological support group The intervention group, in addition to standard treatment, will have 1 weekly session in an online psychological support group of 45 minutes each, totaling 12 sessions in three months. The intervention will be carried out by research psychologists specializing in cardiology, with online consultations via whatsapp
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Changes in European Heart Failure Self-Care Behavior Scale's Scores From baseline to 4 months Changes in Self-care scale scores
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Changes in Morisky and Green points From baseline to 4 moths Changes in adherence points
The average hospitalization's days in 1 year follow up From baseline to 1 year follow up The average hospitalization days in 1 year follow up for all causes heart failure related
Changes in Beck Depression Inventory Scores (BDI-II) From baseline to 4 months Changes in depression scores
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Marcia Moura Schmidt
🇧🇷Porto Alegre, Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil