Improving Quality of Life in Heart Failure

Heart Failure Clinical Trial

Official title: Improving Quality of Life in Outpatients With Heart Failure: A Two-arm Randomized Controlled Trial

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

This research study has been designed to test the efficacy of telephone-delivered Problem-Solving Treatment (PST) for improving the quality of life (QoL) in outpatients with stable heart failure (HF).

Clinical Trial Description

Heart failure (HF) is the end stage of all cardiovascular diseases, and it imposes a huge burden in the United States in terms of morbidity, mortality, and economic cost. Although disease management programs have been developed to curb these costs and address the complexities of HF management, evaluations of these programs have yielded equivocal results. With this study the Investigators plan to: (1) to determine the feasibility of telephone delivered PST for outpatients with HF and reduced QoL by obtaining estimates of yield, retention, patient acceptance, and patient satisfaction; (2) to determine whether telephone-delivered PST is associated with greater improvements in QoL than telephone-delivered Time Management over 8 weeks; and (3) to determine whether telephone-delivered PST is associated with greater reductions in depressive symptoms and/or greater improvements in self-efficacy or objectively assessed daily physical activity than telephone-delivered Time Management over 8 weeks. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Heart Failure
• Quality of Life

• NCT number: NCT03288194
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: University of Colorado, Denver
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: October 2015
• Completion date: April 24, 2017