Leveraging Home Health Aides to Improve Outcomes in Heart Failure
Last updated on July 2021Recruitment
- Recruitment Status
- Not yet recruiting
- Estimated Enrollment
- Same as current
Summary
- Conditions
- Congestive Heart Failure
- Heart Failure
- Type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Design
- Allocation: RandomizedIntervention Model: Parallel AssignmentIntervention Model Description: 104 home health aides will be recruited from VNSNY and randomized to either enhanced usual care arm (heart failure training course; n = 52) or the intervention (heart failure training course plus tablet; n =52). Four nurses will also be recruited to the study. The total duration of each home health aides' involvement will be 90 days.Masking: Single (Outcomes Assessor)Masking Description: Data analyst will be blinded to study arm.Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
Participation Requirements
- Age
- Between 18 years and 75 years
- Gender
- Both males and females
Description
The investigator's central hypothesis is that an intervention that can optimize and improve the experience of home health aides caring for the heart failure patients has the potential to improve home health aides' own self-efficacy, heart failure knowledge, and also patient outcomes. The interventio...
The investigator's central hypothesis is that an intervention that can optimize and improve the experience of home health aides caring for the heart failure patients has the potential to improve home health aides' own self-efficacy, heart failure knowledge, and also patient outcomes. The intervention for home health aides is comprised of a) classroom education on heart failure and b) an electronic tablet containing heart failure educational content and a messaging application that connects home health aides and their nurse supervisors. This intervention requires feasibility and acceptability testing, as well as preliminary testing of its effectiveness among home health aides caring for community-dwelling adults with heart failure.
Tracking Information
- NCT #
- NCT04239911
- Collaborators
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
- Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Madeline R Sterling, MD, MPH, MS Weill Medical College of Cornell University
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