NCT Number: NCT06097481
The Narrative Intervention for Chronic Illness-Heart Failure (NICI-HF) offers an asynchronous interactive text behavioral health intervention to advance behavioral health equity by facilitating access to care for people adjusting to living with heart failure (HF). The proposed study will recruit up to 70 people living with heart failure. This study will gain insight into living with heart failure and learn if the narrative-based intervention is feasible and acceptable for people living with heart failure. The study has two specific aims:
Aim 1: Evaluate the effects of NICI-HF intervention on standard behavioral outcomes. The study investigators will review depression with the Personal Health Questionnaire-9 (primary) and anxiety with the General Anxiety Disorder-7 (secondary) outcomes, and explore self-care with the Self Care for Heart Failure Index by comparing the sham control (n=30) and NICI-HF intervention (n=30) groups at baseline, three months, and six months.
Aim 2: Refine NICI-HF for feasibility and acceptability to support HF self-care and burdensome symptom management and to increase behavioral health equity by improving proximity to services. The study investigators will use standard implementation domains to tailor the intervention for HF using qualitative semi-structured interviews and mixed methods analysis. The study investigators will refine and manualize the intervention for future R01 testing across chronic illnesses with diverse and marginalized populations and service delivery models.
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Get Notified18 year–89 year
All sexes
Interventional
Phase 1 / Phase 2
The Refining an Asynchronous Narrative-Based Intervention for Adjusting to Heart Failure Chronic Illness to Advance Behavioral Health Equity study is a NIH Intervention Stage 1B intervention study design with randomization into two arms: a sham control (SC) and an intervention arm (IA). The study investigators will be recruiting up to 64 participants adjusting to living with heart failure. All participants will be randomized to the SC or IA arms (1:1 randomization). All participants will be asked to complete measurements at baseline (T0), three months (T3), and six months (T6). Measurements at T0 include demographic information, Personal Health Questionnaire-9 item (PHQ9), General Anxiety Disorder-7 item (GAD7), Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ), and the Self Care Heart Failure Index (SCHFI). T3 measurements include: PHQ9, GAD7, KCCQ, and SCHFI. Measurements at T6 include: PHQ9, GAD7, SCHFI, KCCQ, and self-reported access to care and healthcare utilization. Measurements will be administered by email link using REDCap (an online database administered by the University of Colorado).
Intervention and sham control groups will receive biweekly text response prompts. The IA will have tailored responses crafted by the social work psychotherapists. The SC group will not have feedback or tailored responses.
Study participants who complete Week 8 will also be asked to participate in a semi-structured interview at T3. The study investigators will integrate both quantitative and qualitative results as a convergent mixed methods analysis study. In the mixed analyses, The study investigators will pay attention to points of integration in the qualitative subsample of the population, patterns of behavioral outcome scores, context, geolocation characteristics, access to care experience; and frequency of self-schema, world-schema, and self-care of illness compared across aims.
Healthy volunteers accepted: No
Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.
Inclusion criteria
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The Narrative Intervention for Chronic Illness-Heart Failure includes narrative-based, strengths-based, solution-focused brief therapy, and Unitary Caring Science to improve depression (primary outcome) and anxiety (secondary outcome) for people living with heart failure.
Automated emails at similar time points to the intervention will be sent to participants in this arm. Emails will ask participants to reflect on their illness experience and offer general information about heart failure using standardized handouts from the American Heart Association and Up-To-Date.
Time frame: Administered at baseline, 3 months, and 6 months
The Personal Health Questionnaire 9 item (PHQ9) is a measurement of depression, found to be reliable for people living with heart failure. Scores range from 0-27, with higher scores indicating higher depression levels.
Time frame: Administered at baseline, 3 months, and 6 months
The Generalized Anxiety Disorder measurement- 7 item (GAD-7) is a measurement of anxiety found to be reliable for people living with chronic illnesses like heart failure. Scores range from 0-21 with higher scores indicating higher levels of anxiety.
Time frame: Administered at baseline, 3 months, and 6 months
The Self Care Heart Failure Index (SCHFI) is a measurement of heart failure self-care and has been found to be reliable for people living with heart failure. Scores vary from 0-100. A score of 70 or greater can be used as the cut-point to judge self-care adequacy, although evidence is provided that benefit occurs at even lower levels of self-care.
Time frame: Administered at baseline, 3 months, and 6 months
The Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ) is a self reported heart failure severity measure. Scores range from 0-100: frequently summarized as 25-point ranges with 0 being very poor and 100 being excellent.
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University of Colorado, Denver
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Refining an Asynchronous Narrative-Based Intervention for Adjusting to Heart Failure Chronic Illness to Advance Behavioral Health Equity
Acronym: NICI-HF
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