Heart Failure Resilience Intervention for Caregivers

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Conditions studied: Heart Failure, Caregivers

In brief

Heart failure (HF) patients with supportive caregivers have better physical health, emotional health, and quality of life. But caregivers have an increased risk of caregivers' own worsening health and often feel a sense of burden related to caregiving. However, caregivers receive very little support to balance caring for the patient with caring for themselves. Therefore, this research will provide a program for caregivers of advanced heart failure patients to build on the caregiver's strengths, sense of purpose, and set goals for healthy lifestyle changes. The investigators believe that caregivers who receive the program will have better quality of life, less sense of burden, and a healthier lifestyle.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03963583

Run by

Johns Hopkins University

People needed

33

Starts

2022-04-01

Expected to finish

2024-10-31

Last updated by the study team

2025-11-24

Who can join

Age: 50 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Aim 1 inclusion criteria:
• Patients with a HF hospitalization in the last year and their informal caregivers (inclusion criteria below), nurse practitioners, physicians and members of the multidisciplinary team rounds will be included in focus groups.
• Aim 2 \& 3 Inclusion:
• Caregivers of patients served by the HF Bridge Clinic will be included if
• the patient was hospitalized within 6 months
• the caregiver agrees to work on goals that increase preventive health behaviors and/or decrease burden
• caregivers live with the patient or visit them to provide care more than 3 times per week
• the caregiver is 50 years or older and e) the caregiver is the spouse/partner or child of the patient.

You may not qualify if…

• Caregivers who
• themselves have a terminal diagnosis
• or are cognitively impaired based on Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) screening will be excluded as response to the intervention may vary in these groups.

Where it is running

• Johns Hopkins School of Nursing — Baltimore, Maryland, United States

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