Management of Patients With HF by Using Educational or Educational & Telephone or Telephone Interventions and Support in Cyprus

• Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
• Last refreshed on: 19 February 2015
• Main ID: NCT01905176
• Date of registration: 15/07/2013
• Prospective Registration: No
• Primary sponsor: Cyprus University of Technology
• Public title: Management of Patients With HF by Using Educational or Educational & Telephone or Telephone Interventions and Support in Cyprus MEETTinCY
• Scientific title: The Effectiveness of Multiple Nursing Interventions, for Promoting Heart Failure Self-care, on Patients' Quality of Life and Heart Failure Outcomes: A Randomized Control Trial.
• Date of first enrolment: April 2010
• Target sample size: 300
• Recruitment status: Recruiting
• URL: http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT01905176
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Factorial Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
• Phase: N/A

Countries of recruitment

Cyprus

Contacts

• Name: Ekaterini Lambrinou, PhD

• Name: Ekaterini Lambrinou, PhD

• Name: Ekaterini Lambrinou
• Affiliation: Cyprus University of Technology

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Hospitalized adult patients with evidenced HF

- Planned for discharge

- NYHA class I-IV

- Greek speaking

- Able and willing to give informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

- Severe mental illness or severly impaired cognitive function

- Patients that are to be transferred to nursing or rehabilitation homes

- Patients unable to be contacted via telephone

- Patients with active cancer

- Patients on dialysis

- Patients scheduled for surgery

- Patients recently undergone surgery (up to 3 months)

- Patients with less than 3 months life expectancy (end-stage)

- Patients with chronic degenerative diseases



Age minimum: N/A
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: Both

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Heart Failure

Intervention(s)

Other: Telephone support and education post-discharge

Other: Pre-discharge in person education and post-discharge telephone education and support

Other: In person education on heart failure topics before discharge

Primary Outcome(s)

Change from baseline in heart failure related quality of life at 3 months [Time Frame: 3 months]

Secondary Outcome(s)

Change from baseline in heart failure self-care behavior at 3 months [Time Frame: 3 months]

Change from baseline in general health status (functioning) at 3 months [Time Frame: 3 months]

Change in heart failure knowledge from baseline to 3 months [Time Frame: 3 months]

Combined outcome of readmission or death at 3 months post discharge [Time Frame: 3 months]

Secondary ID(s)

MEETTinCY

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors

Secondary Sponsor(s)

University of Athens