Nutritional Orientations and Adherence, Nutritional Status, Clinical and Life Quality Parameters of Heart Failure (HF) Patients

Impact of Nutritional Orientations on Adherence to Diet and Relation to Nutritional, Clinical and Life Quality Parameters of Heart Failure Outpatients

Status

Completed

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT00957814

Enrollment

Registered

2009-08-12

Start date

2009-09-30

Completion date

2010-11-30

Last updated

2016-10-27

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Conditions

Nutrition, Heart Failure

Keywords

nutritional education, diet adherence, nutritional knowledge, life quality, nutritional status, impact of nutritional orientations by a systematic education program applied to outpatients with HF, in comparison to patients in a conventional treatment.

Brief summary

The nutritional systematic orientations in outpatients with heart failure throughout 1 year in comparison to conventional treatment is estimated to lead to higher nutritional treatment adherence and improved nutritional status, clinical and life quality parameters.

Detailed description

To evaluate the impact of systematic nutritional orientation on adherence to diet and relation to clinical, life quality and nutritional knowledge parameters in heart failure outpatients. * To evaluate the impact of systematic nutritional orientation on nutritional status; * To evaluate the impact of nutritional systematic orientation on dietary patterns * To evaluate the impact of systematic nutritional orientation on clinical and biochemical parameters * To evaluate the impact of nutritional systematic orientation on life quality * To evaluate the impact of nutritional systematic orientation on nutritional knowledge

Interventions

BEHAVIORALNutritional education

Systematic nutritional orientation program

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* \>= 18 years old * Outpatients from the HF Ambulatory (HCPA) * Functional class I and II (NYHA)

Exclusion criteria

* Outpatient who had received any orientation from a nutritionist in the last 6 months * Outpatients which has not received nursing orientation in the ambulatory, * Patients from other NYHA class * Non alphabetized

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Diet adherence	1 year

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Knowledge about nutrition, nutritional status, biochemical parameters and life quality	1 year

Outcome results

None listed

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