Depression and Congestive Heart Failure in Outpatients.
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Official title
Depression and CHF in Outpatients
Brief summary
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Patients with a diagnosis of CHF, NYHA class II, III or IV will be recruited for a study comparing a nursing intervention addressing CHF (SIM group) or CHF and depression (CIM group). Participants in the standard illness management program will receive an 8-week, 8-session intervention designed to help them improve daily weighing, salt-restriction, medication management, etc. This intervention will be conducted in a combination of home visits and phone visits. They will also receive interactive, telephone-based daily monitoring that assesses daily weight, dyspnea, fatigue and medication compliance. Patients in the comorbid illness management program will receive the same illness management program PLUS education and behavioral techniques designed to help them cope emotionally with the illness. The comorbid illness management home monitoring will include a twice-monthly screen for depression. Major Variables: The major outcomes will be depressive symptoms, health-related quality of life, functional status, heart failure symptom severity, and self-care behaviors in heart failure.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT00321269
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 134 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
- Single Illness Management Behavioral
- Comorbid Illness Management Behavioral
Behavioral
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 45 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
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Study timeline
- Start date
- Sep 30, 2007
- Primary completion
- Sep 30, 2010
- Completion
- Nov 30, 2010
- Last update posted
- Dec 23, 2015
2007 – 2010
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 2
- U.S. states
- 2
- U.S. cities
- 2
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa City VA Medical Center | Iowa City | Iowa | 52246 | — |
| Harry S. Truman Memorial VA Medical Center | Columbia | Missouri | 65201-5297 | — |
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