Enhancing Heart Failure Self-Care

Status

Completed

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT00526773

Enrollment

Registered

2007-09-10

Start date

2007-01-31

Completion date

2008-12-31

Last updated

2010-10-13

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Conditions

Heart Failure

Keywords

motivational therapy

Brief summary

To test the effectiveness of a motivational intervention compared with standard patient education in improving economic and clinical outcomes in patients enrolled in an existing heart failure (HF) disease management program.

Interventions

OTHERtelephone management plus a motivational intervention

heart failure intervention

OTHERtelephone management with standard patient education

heart failure intervention

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE (Subject)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to 95 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Chronic heart failure, hospitalized for heart failure or hospitalized for heart failure within the past 30 days, speak and read English

Exclusion criteria

* Severe renal failure requiring dialysis, HIV-AIDS, psychosis, uncorrected hearing loss

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
To test the effectiveness of a motivational intervention compared with standard patient education in improving economic and clinical outcomes in patients enrolled in HF disease management.	12 weeks

Countries

United States

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026