Enhancing Heart Failure Self-Care

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Heart Failure Cardiovascular Diseases Heart Diseases

Age range

18 year–95 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Christiana Care Health System

Newark, Delaware, 19718, United States

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

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

Treatment and study plan

telephone management plus a motivational intervention

Other

heart failure intervention

telephone management with standard patient education

Other

heart failure intervention

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

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Christiana Care Health Services

Other

Registry information

Important dates

Study start: 2007
Primary completion: 2008
Study completion: 2008
First posted: Sep 10, 2007
Registry last updated: Oct 13, 2010

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