Enhancing Caregiver Support for Heart Failure Patients: the CarePartner Study

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Heart Failure, Congestive

In brief

Informal caregivers, assisted by health information technology may help to fill the gaps in VA care management of heart failure patients by enhancing support for patients' treatment adherence, behavior changes, and symptom monitoring.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00555360

Run by

US Department of Veterans Affairs

People needed

372

Starts

2009-06-01

Expected to finish

2014-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-09-15

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Veterans with heart failure (HF) treated at the VA Louis Stokes (Cleveland) facilities will be eligible if they have New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class II-III diastolic or systolic HF noted by inpatient or outpatient ICD-9 codes.

You may not qualify if…

• Veterans treated at the VA Louis Stokes (Cleveland) facilities will be ineligible if they:
• have a serious mental illness or cognitive dysfunction, e.g., psychosis, dementia, or active substance abuse (alcohol and/or other drugs);
• do not speak English fluently;
• are receiving palliative care due to advanced HF or other health problems;
• receive the majority of their HF care from providers outside of the VA;
• are unable to use a telephone to respond to weekly automated self-management support calls; or
• are unable to nominate an eligible informal caregiver.

Where it is running

• VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System — Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
• VA Medical Center, Cleveland — Cleveland, Ohio, United States

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