Home Heart Failure Palliative Care in Rural Appalachia
This study is testing a special program called HF-FamPALhomeCARE for people with advanced heart failure (NYHA Class III or IV) and their family caregivers in rural Appalachia. The program involves nurses providing home visits and phone calls to help manage heart failure care at home, especially for end-of-life planning. Researchers want to see if this program improves the patient's quality of life and the caregiver's well-being, and reduces depression and anxiety for patients. You might be able to join if you are 50-80 years old with advanced heart failure, and your caregiver is 45-80 years old. The study aims to enroll 208 participants.
- Study design
- This is a randomized controlled trial, meaning participants are randomly assigned to receive either the HF-FamPALhomeCARE program or standard care. The study aims to enroll 208 participants (104 patient-family caregiver pairs).
- What's involved
- If you are in the HF-FamPALhomeCARE group, you would receive two home visits and three bi-weekly phone calls about heart failure home care, plus follow-up phone calls at 3, 6, 9, and 12 months. Your quality of life will be measured at the start, and at 3 and 6 months.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- Participants will be followed with phone calls for 12 months after starting the program.
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Sustaining Home Heart Failure Palliative Care in Rural Appalachia
At a glance
Conditions
NCT06791850
Where you'd take part
This study runs at 1 site. They're the same protocol — you choose where, and that choice sets who your contact draft is addressed to.
West Virginia University Hospital
Morgantown, West Virginiastudy coordinator listed
Recruiting
Sites open and close at different times, so the status above is per site — it can differ from the study's overall status.
Study leadership
- Ubolrat Piamjariyakul · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · West Virginia University School of Nursing
Who to contact
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What this trial measures
- Patient's Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ-12)Baseline
Measures patients' Heart Failure (HF) status \& physical function status. Each item is scored on a scale from 0 to 4 or 0 to 5, depending on the question. The overall score range is 0-100 with a higher score indicating better HF health status.
- Patient's Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ-12)3 Month Follow up
Measures patients' Heart Failure (HF) status \& physical function status. Each item is scored on a scale from 0 to 4 or 0 to 5, depending on the question. The overall score range is 0-100 with a higher score indicating better HF health status.
- Patient's Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ-12)6 Month Follow up
Measures patients' Heart Failure (HF) status \& physical function status. Each item is scored on a scale from 0 to 4 or 0 to 5, depending on the question. The overall score range is 0-100 with a higher score indicating better HF health status.
- Patient's Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ-12)9 Month Follow up
Measures patients' Heart Failure (HF) status \& physical function status. Each item is scored on a scale from 0 to 4 or 0 to 5, depending on the question. The overall score range is 0-100 with a higher score indicating better HF health status.
- Patient's Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ-12)12 Month Follow Up
Measures patients' Heart Failure (HF) status \& physical function status. Each item is scored on a scale from 0 to 4 or 0 to 5, depending on the question. The overall score range is 0-100 with a higher score indicating better HF health status.
- Patient--World Health Organization Quality of life QuestionnaireBaseline
Self-assessment that measures patient's function health and well-being. Score range is 0-100 with a higher score indicating better health function and well-being.
- Patient--World Health Organization Quality of life Questionnaire3 Month Follow up
Self-assessment that measures patient's function health and well-being. Score range is 0-100 with a higher score indicating better health function and well-being.
- Patient--World Health Organization Quality of life Questionnaire6 Month Follow up
Self-assessment that measures patient's function health and well-being. Score range is 0-100 with a higher score indicating better health function and well-being.
- Patient--World Health Organization Quality of life Questionnaire9 Month Follow up
Self-assessment that measures patient's function health and well-being. Score range is 0-100 with a higher score indicating better health function and well-being.
- Patient--World Health Organization Quality of life Questionnaire12 Month Follow up
Self-assessment that measures patient's function health and well-being. Score range is 0-100 with a higher score indicating better health function and well-being.
- Caregiver--World Health Organization Quality of life QuestionnaireBaseline
Self-assessment that measures patient's function health and well-being. Score range is 0-100 with a higher score indicating better health function and well-being.
- Caregiver--World Health Organization Quality of life Questionnaire3 Month Follow up
Self-assessment that measures patient's function health and well-being. Score range is 0-100 with a higher score indicating better health function and well-being.
- Caregiver--World Health Organization Quality of life Questionnaire6 Month Follow up
Self-assessment that measures patient's function health and well-being. Score range is 0-100 with a higher score indicating better health function and well-being.
- Caregiver--World Health Organization Quality of life Questionnaire9 Month Follow up
Self-assessment that measures patient's function health and well-being. Score range is 0-100 with a higher score indicating better health function and well-being.
- Caregiver--World Health Organization Quality of life Questionnaire12 Month Follow up
Self-assessment that measures patient's function health and well-being. Score range is 0-100 with a higher score indicating better health function and well-being.