Symptom Recognition Improves Self-care in Patients With Heart Failure.
- Conditions
- Heart FailureSymptoms and Signs
- Registration Number
- NCT04892004
- Lead Sponsor
- Instituto Politécnico de Leiria
- Brief Summary
Describe a behaviour intervention to analyse self-care engagement in heart failure patients. Allocate patients with heart failure into 2 arms study: a control group and an intervention group.
- Detailed Description
According to medical record at admission, a pilot study was described and included 63 patients in New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional class II-III. Patients were recruited in a hospital setting after discharge from a heart failure unit.
Patients were allocated into a control group (n=33) and an intervention group (n=30) through the computerised random allocation generator at http://random.org.
The pilot study was performed during three months per patient, with four moments of assessment (baseline, first-week follow-up, first-month follow-up, third-month follow-up).
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 63
- adults aged >18 years old, with diagnosed HF and with no cognitive disability associated.
- patients placed on the heart transplant waiting list and patients in class IV NYHA.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Self-care behaviors up to 3 months Analyze if self-care behaviors are improved
Symptom recognition up to 3 months Awareness by a person of the body changes and how they can affect him/her
Emergency and Hospital admissions up to 3 months Report if patients with Heart Failure are admitted into hospital or emergency room
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method