Motivational Interviewing Tailored Intervention for Patients With Heart Failure (MITI-HF)

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Heart Failure

In brief

This study will test the effectiveness of motivational interviewing and skill building compared to usual care to improve self-care in heart failure (HF) patients. The target population is HF patients recruited from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania after an in-patient admission. Patients in the intervention arms will receive one home-visit from a nurse who does a self-care intervention followed up by 3 follow-up phone calls.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02177656

Run by

Ruth Masterson-Creber

People needed

100

Starts

2012-01-01

Expected to finish

2014-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2014-06-27

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• To be included, participants had to be:
• hospitalized with a primary or secondary diagnosis of heart failure
• able to read and speak English
• 18 years of age or older
• living in a setting where they can independently engage in self-care
• living within 30 miles from the University hospital
• have at least adequate health literacy
• symptomatic HF (NYHA II-IV)
• willing to participate

You may not qualify if…

• Exclusion criteria included:
• being on a Milrinone drip
• being on a list for an implanted ventricular assist device or heart transplant
• pregnancy
• psychosis
• cognitive impairment with the inability to participate in the intervention or complete the study instruments
• inability to provide informed consent
• Study enrollment took place from January 2012 to December 2013.

Where it is running

• Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

Trial information comes from ClinicalTrials.gov and is refreshed daily. TrialsForMe does not provide medical care and does not run the studies it lists.