A study to assess the effect of tools on medication adherence in heart failure patients
Phase 2
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: I509- Heart failure, unspecified
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2018/10/015956
- Lead Sponsor
- AIIMS
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
1) Age 18 to 60 years.
2) NYHA class 2 or 3 heart failure patients of either gender visiting the Cardiology OPD .
3) Referred patients from other clinics having previous prescription.
4) Participant willing to give informed consent.
Exclusion Criteria
1) Patient already recruited for other trial.
2) Patients with major organ dysfunction like renal dysfunction (Blood Urea > 50mg%,
S.Creatinine > 1.8mg%) hepatic dysfunction (AST/ ALT/ ALP/ Total S. Bilirubin > 3 times the
upper normal limit).
3) Pregnancy and lactation.
4) With other co-morbid conditions like uncontrolled diabetes mellitus, uncontrolled
hypertension and malignancy.
5) Patients with rapidly progressing disease
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Improvement in medication adherence by measuring change in Morisky, Green, and Levine (MGL) Adherence Scale score.Timepoint: Baseline and 12 weeks
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Improvement in patient functional capacity by measuring change in Likert score.Timepoint: At baseline and follow up after 12 weeks.