Enhancing Heart Failure Self-Care

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Heart Failure
• Interventions: Other: telephone management plus a motivational intervention; Other: telephone management with standard patient education

• Registration Number: NCT00526773
• Lead Sponsor: Christiana Care Health Services

Brief Summary

To test the effectiveness of a motivational intervention compared with standard patient education in improving economic and clinical outcomes in patients enrolled in an existing heart failure (HF) disease management program.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2007-01
• Study First Submitted: 2007-09-05
• Study First Submitted QC: 2007-09-05
• Study First Posted: 2007-09-10
• Primary Completion: 2008-12
• Study Completion: 2008-12
• Status Verified: 2010-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2010-10-11
• Last Update Posted: 2010-10-13

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 50

Inclusion Criteria

• Chronic heart failure, hospitalized for heart failure or hospitalized for heart failure within the past 30 days, speak and read English

Exclusion Criteria

• Severe renal failure requiring dialysis, HIV-AIDS, psychosis, uncorrected hearing loss

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
1	telephone management plus a motivational intervention	Telephone management plus a motivational intervention
2	telephone management with standard patient education	Telephone management with standard patient education

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
To test the effectiveness of a motivational intervention compared with standard patient education in improving economic and clinical outcomes in patients enrolled in HF disease management.	12 weeks

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Christiana Care Health System; 🇺🇸 Newark, Delaware, United States