Skip to content

The effect of palliative care at home on the quality of life

The effect of palliative care at home on the quality of life of the elderly with heart failure discharged from the heart wards

Status
Recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
IRCT
Registry ID
IRCT20211213053389N1
Enrollment
100
Registered
2022-02-19
Start date
2022-03-06
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2022-03-08

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Heart Failure. Heart failure

Interventions

Intervention 1: Intervention group: After the initial visit, which will be performed jointly by a cardiologist and a researcher, in addition to receiving routine care in heart failure, they will be pl

Sponsors

Kerman University of Medical Sciences
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: The elderly with a certain diagnosis of chronic heart failure Ability to communicate and non - speech problems and hearing problems Lack of mental illness Full consciousness at the time of research Willingness to participate in research

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: In case of unstable physical and emergency conditions (change in vital signs and inability of the patient to attend class) Failure to attend more than two training sessions Failure to answer more than a third of the questions

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Quality of life score in the Ferrans and Powers quality of life index, cardiac version - IV. Timepoint: Measurement of quality of life at the beginning of the study (before the intervention), after the intervention and 1 month after the intervention. Method of measurement: Ferrans and Powers quality of life index, cardiac version - IV.

Countries

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Contacts

Public ContactMohammad hossein Khajehpoor

Kerman University of Medical Sciences

Khajehpoor_m@yahoo.com+98 34 3132 5219

Outcome results

None listed

Source: IRCT (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 10, 2026