Effects of hope promoting interventions on quality of lif of CHF patients

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Congestive heart failure.; Heart failure, unspecified

• Registration Number: IRCT2014100619413N1
• Lead Sponsor: Vice Chancellor for Research of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Last Update Posted: 22 February 2018

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Complete
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 46

Inclusion Criteria

Inclusion criteria for patients : Age 18 years and older; Catching heart failure class 1 and 2 by the specialist; Catching Heart failure for at least one year; Full Consciousness and knowledge of the time, place and person, and having no dementia; Interested in participating in the study (Dewolfe etal.2011, p.2); Being Muslim; Not having speech problems, mental (confirmed by a specialist) and hearing (Aboutalebi Daryasary et al 1390, p .204); Not having other serious medical illness that impact on quality of life and mental health (confirmed by a doctor) (sotudeh asl et al 1390, p 29).
Inclusion criteria for family members: Age 18 and older; Interested in participating in the study; Being Muslim; The ability to read and write; A family member, spouse, child, parent, brother or sister who have the greatest participation in the care of his patients;
Exclusion criteria: Cancel the cooperation by patient or his family during the study; Use other methods of complementary medicine by the patient or family members during the study; Death of patient or caregiver during the intervention that another not be able to continue to study; Absence of a patient or family member in more than one session of 6 sessions.

Exclusion Criteria

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Study & Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Quality of Life. Timepoint: Before intervention- Immediately after the intervention- One month after the intervention. Method of measurement: Ferrans and Powers Quality of Life Index.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Does not have. Timepoint: does not have. Method of measurement: does not have.