Coping Skills and Heart Failure: Outcomes and Mechanisms

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Conditions studied: Heart Failure

In brief

This study will evaluate whether heart failure patients receiving a 16 week telephone delivered, intervention using cognitive behavior therapy to facilitate self-management of heart failure will have better clinical outcomes than heart failure patients receiving a 16 week heart failure education intervention via telephone.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00873418

Run by

Duke University

People needed

190

Starts

2009-03-01

Expected to finish

2016-02-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-03-31

Who can join

Age: 21 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Men or women aged 21 years or older
• New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class I-IV HF of at least 3-months duration
• Left ventricular Ejection Fraction (EF) < 40% by left ventricular angiography, nuclear wall motion study, or echocardiography, within 6 months of study enrollment
• Undergoing treatment with a stable medication regimen.

You may not qualify if…

• Myocardial Infarction (MI), Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty(PTCA), Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) within 3 months of enrollment
• HF due to correctable cause or condition such as uncorrected primary valvular disease
• Alcohol or drug abuse within 12 months
• Illness such as malignancies that are associated with a life-expectancy of < 12 months
• Current pregnancy
• Inability to provide informed consent

Where it is running

• Duke University Medical Center — Durham, North Carolina, United States

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