The impact of family-based education on the hope of Heart failure patients

• Register: IRCT
• Last refreshed on: 22 February 2018
• Main ID: IRCT2014121413156N10
• Date of registration: 2016-10-04
• Prospective Registration: No
• Primary sponsor: Vice Chancellor for Research of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences
• Public title: The impact of family-based education on the hope of Heart failure patients
• Scientific title: The impact of family-based education on the hope of Heart failure patients
• Date of first enrolment: 2016-04-13
• Target sample size: 110
• Recruitment status: Complete
• URL: http://en.irct.ir/trial/13086
• Study type: interventional
• Study design: Randomization: Randomized, Blinding: Not blinded, Placebo: Not used, Assignment: Parallel, Purpose: Supportive, Other design features: Table of random numbers.
• Phase: 2

Countries of recruitment

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Contacts

• Name: Aleme Ghajar
• Affiliation: Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences

• Name: Mohammad Ali Heydarigorji
• Affiliation: Faculty member of Nursing and Midwifery

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Inclusion criteria:The minimum age of the patient should be 20 and maximum age is 80 years old? the doctor should confirm the disease diagnosis? Patients with class II and III heart failure? The patient or one of his family members should be understand Persian language?The patient should be consciousness? The exclusion criteria: the patient and his family do not want to cooperate anymore? The patient and his family have attended other organizations’ formal training.
Exclusion criteria:

Age minimum: 20 years
Age maximum: 80 years
Gender: Both

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Cardiac, heart or myocardial failure NOS

Heart failure.
Cardiac, heart or myocardial failure NOS

Intervention(s)

In the control group, common training in hospital will receive.

Intervention 1: The training course consists of three successive sessions with the patient and one of his family members in the test group and the formulated content would be taught in three 1-hour sessions in 3 successive days. The training content includes: Explain the importance of having information about the disease and its complications and the importance of medication, medication use, diet, physical activity (first session); Limits of fluid intake, weight control, how to control vital signs, the importance of vaccinations and smoking cessation (second session); Ways to deal with hopelessness and depression, and Increasing hope and getting to know disease-causing symptoms and relapse (third session). Afterwards, phone follow up would continue every two weeks. In order to compare the test and control groups after three months, the effect of training course on quality of life will be investigated through posttest. Intervention 2: In the control group, common training in hospital will receive.

The training course consists of three successive sessions with the patient and one of his family members in the test group and the formulated content would be taught in three 1-hour sessions in 3 successive days. The training content includes: Explain the importance of having information about the disease and its complications and the importance of medication, medication use, diet, physical activity (first session); Limits of fluid intake, weight control, how to control vital signs, the importance of vaccinations and smoking cessation (second session); Ways to deal with hopelessness and depression, and Increasing hope and getting to know disease-causing symptoms and relapse (third session). Afterwards, phone follow up would continue every two weeks. In order to compare the test and control groups after three months, the effect of training course on quality of life will be investigated through posttest.

Behavior

Primary Outcome(s)

Hope. Timepoint: Before the intervention, three months after the intervention. Method of measurement: Miller hopes questionnaire.

Secondary Outcome(s)

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Source(s) of Monetary Support

Vice Chancellor for Research of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences

Ethics review

Status: Approved
Approval date:
Contact:

Ethics Committee of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences