A Supportive Care Programme for People With Heart Failure
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Heart Failure
- Sponsor
- Cyprus University of Technology
- Enrollment
- 200
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Audit of Diabetes Dependent Quality of Life - 19 Items ADDQoL-19 (Gr version)
- Last Updated
- 5 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
Efficient health care systems for the management of chronic diseases in the community may improve clinical outcomes and simultaneously encourage patients to remain healthy. Supportive care, may contribute to empower heart failure (HF) patients for self- management and providing them with the follow-up and care based on their needs and values through the HF trajectory. To develop the current program an assessment of the support needs of HF patients' will be undertaken and the investigators will take into consideration of their personal preferences, for instance means of communication and way of exercise as part of the intervention. The present study aspires to evaluate the effectiveness of an individualized supportive care management program in terms of the four different components that comprise supportive care in HF. The objectives of this study are to:
- Determine supportive care needs of HF patients as reported in the literature.
- Explore Cypriot patients' identified supportive care needs.
- To develop and test a self-management supportive care programme for HF patients.
Investigators
Ekaterini Lambrinou
Associate Professor
Cyprus University of Technology
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- Not provided
Exclusion Criteria
- •Refuse to take part in the research
- •Dementia or other severe mental illness
- •Transfer to nursing homes after discharge
- •Difficulty in contacting them by a phone call
- •Patients with chronic degenerative diseases (Alzheimer, cancer, etc)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Audit of Diabetes Dependent Quality of Life - 19 Items ADDQoL-19 (Gr version)
Time Frame: one year
quantitative data Individual domains of the questionnaire and Average Weighted Impact Score of the indivudual domains scores show maximum negative impact of diabetes (-9) and maximum positive impact of diabetes (+3)
Hospital and Anxiety- Depression Scale (Greek Version) HADS (Gr version)
Time Frame: one year
Quantitative data The HADS is a self-report rating scale of 14 items on a 4-point Likert scale (range 0-3). It is designed to measure anxiety and depression (7 items for each subscale). The total score is the sum of the 14 items, and for each subscale the score is the sum of the respective seven items (ranging from 0-21). Higher scores indicate worse quality of life.
Minnessota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire (Greek Version) MLHFQ (Gr version)
Time Frame: one year
Quantitative data. MLHFQ consists of 21 items using a six-point Likert scale (scored 0-5), resulting in a total score in the range of 0-105, with higher scores reflecting poorer quality of life.
International Physical Activity Questionnaire (Greek Version) IPAQ (Gr version)
Time Frame: one year
quantitative data In the classification of perceived physical activity via the IPAQ there were three categories ˙ low activity level, moderate activity and high activity level
Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (Greek Version) MSPSS (Gr version)
Time Frame: one year
Quantitative data MSPSS consists of 12 items using a six-point Likert scale (scored 1-7), resulting in a total score in the range of 12-84.The dimension scores were calculated as the summation of the items that repreresent each dimenson \[ 1. Family/Significant others , 2. Friends\] . Higher scores indicate higher perceived social support by Friends and Family/Signifciant Others.
Secondary Outcomes
- European Heart Failure Self-Care Behavior Scale - Gr9 (Greek version) Grg-EHFScB(3rd month)
- Self -Care of Heart Failure Index (Greek Version) Gr-SCHFI(one year)
- European Heart Failure Self-Care Behavior Scale- Gr9 (Greek version) Grg-EHFScB(6th month)
- Self -Care of Heart Failure Index (Greek Version) SCHFI -Gr(Baseline)
- Number of acute events and deterioration Despite advances in treatment, the prognosis of HF remains poor, accounting for 10% mortality rate after an acute event and 20-25% of patients will be readmitted within the first month after discharge.(one year)
- European Heart Failure Self-Care Behavior Scale - Gr9(Greek version) Grg-EHFScB(one year)