Enhancing Heart Failure Self-Care

Christiana Care Health Services1 site in 1 country50 target enrollmentJanuary 2007

ConditionsHeart Failure

Overview

Phase: Not Applicable
Intervention: Not specified
Conditions: Heart Failure
Sponsor: Christiana Care Health Services
Enrollment: 50
Locations: 1
Primary Endpoint: 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.
Status: Completed
Last Updated: 15 years ago

Overview Investigators Eligibility Criteria Outcomes Sites Similar Trials

Overview

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.

Registry

clinicaltrials.gov

Start Date

January 2007

End Date

December 2008

Last Updated

15 years ago

Study Type

Interventional

Study Design

Parallel

Sex

All

Investigators

Sponsor

Christiana Care Health Services

Eligibility Criteria

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

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

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.

Time Frame: 12 weeks