Congestive heart failure. Heart failure, unspecified
Conditions
Interventions
Intervention 1: In study group and their family, 60 min sessions of hope promoting interventions based on religious recommendations will held twice a week for three weeks. The interventions have two-s
Treatment - Other
In study group and their family, 60 min sessions of hope promoting interventions based on religious recommendations will held twice a week for three weeks. The interventions have two-step of Creating
Two training sessions about the disease will be held to control group.
Sponsors
Vice Chancellor for Research of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 75 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Inclusion criteria for patients : Age 18 years and older; Catching heart failure class 1 and 2 by the specialist; Catching Heart failure for at least one year; Full Consciousness and knowledge of the time, place and person, and having no dementia; Interested in participating in the study (Dewolfe etal.2011, p.2); Being Muslim; Not having speech problems, mental (confirmed by a specialist) and hearing (Aboutalebi Daryasary et al 1390, p .204); Not having other serious medical illness that impact on quality of life and mental health (confirmed by a doctor) (sotudeh asl et al 1390, p 29). Inclusion criteria for family members: Age 18 and older; Interested in participating in the study; Being Muslim; The ability to read and write; A family member, spouse, child, parent, brother or sister who have the greatest participation in the care of his patients; Exclusion criteria: Cancel the cooperation by patient or his family during the study; Use other methods of complementary medicine by the patient or family members during the study; Death of patient or caregiver during the intervention that another not be able to continue to study; Absence of a patient or family member in more than one session of 6 sessions.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria:
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Quality of Life. Timepoint: Before intervention- Immediately after the intervention- One month after the intervention. Method of measurement: Ferrans and Powers Quality of Life Index. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Does not have. Timepoint: does not have. Method of measurement: does not have. | — |
Countries
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Contacts
Public ContactNiloufar Binaei
Isfahan University of Medical Sciences
Outcome results
None listed