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Conditions
Brief summary
The primary purpose of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness, feasibility, and acceptability of the hope-fostering nursing intervention in promoting the quality of life of Chinese heart failure patients in Hong Kong. The null hypotheses are as follows: 1) There are no statistically significant differences in the level of hope scores, depressive symptom scores, quality of life scores, the level of self-esteem scores in Hong Kong Chinese heart failure patients who receive routine medical follow-up, and participate in the hope-fostering intervention in comparison to those who just receive Tai Chi program and to those who recieve routine medical follow-up with informative pamphlets, and continuing monitoring after discharge from hospital.
Interventions
Experiment group: Hope Fostering intervention
Patients attend 2 x 1.5 hour education sessions per week for 2 weeks plus a 1 hour booster session after 3 months.
Sessions are delivered to maximum 10 people by nurse at the hospital.
The education sessions will contain the education element, supporting group element, and coping skills through knowledge delivery for reinforcing self-esteem, perceived self-efficacy, self-care behaviour, spiritual and religious belief, social support as well as Ta
Experiment group: Hope Fostering intervention Patients attend 2 x 1.5 hour education sessions per week for 2 weeks plus a 1 hour booster session after 3 months. Sessions are delivered to maximum 10 people by nurse at the hospital. The education sessions will contain the education element, supporting group element, and coping skills through knowledge delivery for reinforcing self-esteem, perceived self-efficacy, self-care behaviour, spiritual and religious belief, social support as well as Tai Chi exercise.
Sponsors
Keung sum CHAN
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Educational / counselling / training
Masking
Blinded (masking used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
60 Years to 70 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Participants btween the ages of 60 and 70 years with a medical diagnosis of confirmed heart failure greater than 3 years by ward medical record review man or woman able to speak Cantonese and read Chinese Classified as grade II to IV according to the New York Heart Association Classification heart failure patient's Herth Hope Index score less than 30 regarded as low level of hope
Exclusion criteria
Psychiatric problems identified in their medical records and also identified patients by interview with Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia Lifetime version for ruled out any hidden affective disorders or schizophrenia patients. impaired cognitive function identified by Mini-Mental Status Examination (MMSE less than 30 were also excluded family history of heart disease were also excluded suffered from a coexisting, severe, chronic debilitating disease were excluded history of known any form of Tai Chi exercise
Outcome results
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