Heart Failure Self Care Education in Rwanda

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Conditions studied: Heart Failure

In brief

In Rwanda, patients with heart failure may have low health education about their condition. Heart failure care requires active patient involvement. Self-care of heart failure requires healthy lifestyle, attention to symptoms, proper action when new symptoms develop. However, many patients may choose to stop taking medications when they are feeling well, or disregard new symptoms when they develop and delaying care until their condition is more severe. Educating patients in self-care for heart failure can be achieved by clinical staff with the support of patient handbooks or flip books. Self-care education materials have been developed by the research team in Haiti and have been adapted for Rwanda. This study will use a cluster, stepped wedge design. Patients are already in clusters based on their health facility. The order of implementation will be randomized by the cluster. The primary outcome is heart failure knowledge assessed pre- and post-intervention through a structured survey.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT07722468

Run by

Boston Medical Center

People needed

400

Starts

2026-09-01

Expected to finish

2028-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2026-07-23

Who can join

Age: 10 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Participants living with heart failure followed at non-communicable disease clinics across three district hospitals (DHs) i- Butaro, Kirehe, and Rwinkwavu
• Able to provide informed consent; for minors, able to provide assent with parent or caregiver consent.
• Pediatric participants must be aged ≥10 years; consent will be obtained from a parent or caregiver, with age-appropriate assent from the child.

You may not qualify if…

• Unable to provide informed consent

Where it is running

• District Hospitals Butaro, Kirehe, and Rwinkwavu — Kigali, Rwanda

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