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CompletedNCT01894750Updated Apr 15, 2015

Building Skill in Heart Failure Self-care: A Community Based Intervention

A Phase 1/2 interventional study of group-based skill building self-care program in Heart Failure, sponsored by NYU Langone Health. Completed at 2 sites in United States. Open to participants aged 50 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2015-04-15.

Sponsored by NYU Langone Health · Phase 1/2, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Phase 1/2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
75
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
50 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

The purpose of this study is to pilot and feasibility test an innovative cognitive behavioral intervention to improve heart failure self-care among community dwelling older adults.The primary aim of this study is to test the effect of the intervention on improving heart failure self-care, knowledge and Health related quality of life at 1 month and 3 months. We will test three hypotheses comparing 60 older adults with heart failure randomly assigned to either the intervention or a control group:

Hypothesis 1. Participants in the intervention group will have significantly improved heart failure self-care than control participants.

Hypothesis 2. Participants in the intervention group will have significantly improved knowledge about heart failure and heart failure self-care than control participants.

Hypothesis 3. Participants in the intervention group will have significantly better Health Related Quality of Life than control participants.

A secondary exploratory aim is to assess and describe implementation feasibility of providing a heart failure self-care intervention in a community group setting.

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Conditions studied

  • Heart Failure

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Keywords

  • Heart Failure
  • Self-Care
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In context

Heart Failure

5,701 studies on the registry are indexed under Heart Failure; 1,220 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 75 is close to the median of 72 across 3,736 interventional studies indexed under Heart Failure.

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Lead sponsor

NYU Langone Health is the lead sponsor of 1,391 studies on the registry; 254 are open to participants now.

Of its 227 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 191 (84%) have results posted.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
50 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

  • diagnosis of chronic HF
  • able to read and speak English or Spanish
  • over age 50

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • history of prior neurological event (e.g., stroke, head injury, encephalopathy) that could cause dementia
  • unable to perform tests or participate in the intervention session (e.g., inability to communicate verbally, major visual impairment, or severe and uncorrected hearing loss).
  • living in a nursing home or other long term care facility
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Study design

Phase
Phase 1 / Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
75 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    skill bulding Intevention

    group-based skill building self-care program

    Behavioral: group-based skill building self-care program

  • No intervention
    usual care

Interventions

  • Behavioralgroup-based skill building self-care program
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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Change in baseline heart failure self-care score at one month

    Heart failure self-care is measured by the valid and reliable instrument the Self-Care of Heart Failure Index. Change in scores from baseline at one month will be assessed.

    Time frame: Change from baseline heart failure self-care at 1 month

  2. Change in baseline heart failure self-care score at 3 months

    Heart failure self-care is measured by the valid and reliable instrument the Self-Care of Heart Failure Index. Change in scores from baseline to 3 months will be assessed.

    Time frame: Change from baseline heart failure self-care at 3 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. Change in baseline Heart failure knowledge score at 1 month

    Heart failure knowledge will be measured using the valid and reliable Dutch Heart Failure Knowledge survey. Changes in total score from baseline at 1 month will be assessed.

    Time frame: Change in baseline Heart failure knowledge score at 1 month

  2. Change in baseline Heart failure knowledge score at 3 month

    Heart failure knowledge will be measured using the valid and reliable Dutch Heart Failure Knowledge survey. Changes in total heart failure knowledge score from baseline to 3 months will be assessed.

    Time frame: Change in baseline Heart failure knowledge score at 3 month

Other outcomes

  1. Changes in baseline Health related quality of life at 1 month

    Health related quality of life will be measured using valid and reliable Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire. Changes in scores will be assessed from baseline to 3 months

    Time frame: Changes in baseline health related quality of life at 1 month

  2. Changes in baseline Health related quality of life at 3 month

    Health related quality of life will be measured using valid and reliable Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire. Changes in scores will be assessed from baseline to 3 months

    Time frame: Changes in baseline health related quality of life at 3 month

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Study locations

2 sites
  • Bellevue Hospital
    New York, New York 10010, United States
  • NYU Langone Medical Center
    New York, New York 10010, United States
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Apr 15, 2015, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT01894750
Lead sponsor
NYU Langone Health
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Jul 10, 2013
Start date
Jun 2010
Primary completion
Sep 2014
Completion
Sep 2014
Last update
Apr 15, 2015

Study contacts

Victoria Vaughan Dickson, PhD, RN, FAHA
principal investigator · NYU College of Nursing

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
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