Meeting Heart Failure Patients needs for self-care education with a multi-media educational intervention: The Self-Care Educational Intervention study

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Heart Failure; Cardiovascular - Coronary heart disease

• Registration Number: ACTRN12612000764831
• Lead Sponsor: Mary Boyde

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2012-07-18
• Study Completion: 2016-04-30
• Last Update Posted: 16 February 2021

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 200

Inclusion Criteria

Accepted into Heart Failure Service at Princess Alexandra Hospital

Exclusion Criteria

Unable to read and write English
Unable to view DVD
Significant cognitive impairment
Living in a nursing home or dependent housing
Being considered for transplantation or artifical heart device
Terminal malignancy

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
nplanned re-admissions to hospital for heart failure. This information will be obtained from the patients and their medical records.[At 3 months and 12 months after randomisation]

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Knowledge of heart failure. This will be assessed with the Dutch Heart Failure Knowledge Scale (DHFKS).[At 3 months and 12 months after randomisation.];Self-care health related behaviours: This will be assessed with the Self-Care of Heart Failure Index(SCHFI) v6.2.[At 3 months and 12 months post randomisation]