Effectiveness of a self-management patient education program "Curriculum Heart Failure" for inpatient cardiac rehabilitation.
Organizational Data
- DRKS-ID:
- DRKS00004841
- Recruitment Status:
- Recruiting complete, study complete
- Date of registration in DRKS:
- 2013-04-05
- Last update in DRKS:
- 2023-01-24
- Registration type:
- Retrospective
Acronym/abbreviation of the study
No Entry
URL of the study
http://www.psychotherapie.uni-wuerzburg.de/forschung/projekte-koop_20.html
Brief summary in lay language
Patient education is an essential part of the medical rehabilitation of patients with chronic heart failure targeting self-management behavior and subsequent illness progress. For inpatient cardiac rehabilitation, no evaluated educational group program for patients with heart failure is so far available for routine use. The aim of the study is to evaluate a self-management patient education program for heart failure in medical rehabilitation. The main research question is the short-, intermediate and long-term effects of the educational program on self-management competence as compared with a usual care program for patients with heart failure receiving inpatient medical rehabilitation. Participants are 540 rehabilitants with heart failure, who participate in a patient education program. 270 patients will receive the new patient education group program and 270 patients one lecture of basic medical education by a physician. The participants are randomly assigned to one program. Data will be assessed with questionnaires at admission and discharge of rehabilitation as well as after 6- and 12-months.
Brief summary in scientific language
The aim of the study is to evaluate a self-management patient education program for heart failure in medical rehabilitation. The main question is the short-, intermediate and long-term effects of the patient-oriented educational program as compared with a usual care program for HF-patients receiving inpatient medical rehabilitation. Moreover, moderator effects of gender, age, education, and type of rehabilitation (cardiac rehabilitation within 14 days after an acute cardiac index event versus cardiac rehabilitation during the chronic course of disease without recent acute index event) will be explored. The study is a multicenter cluster randomized controlled trial in four cardiac rehabilitation clinics. Clusters are patient education groups that comprise HF-patients which start inpatient medical rehabilitation within certain time periods of about 2 weeks. A cluster randomization was chosen for practical reasons, i.e. the number of eligible patients to join the educational groups. Furthermore, to prevent contamination by interaction of patients with different group allocation during rehabilitation. Rehabilitants with chronic systolic heart failure (n = 540) will be consecutively recruited for the study at the beginning of inpatient rehabilitation. Data will be assessed at admission, at discharge and after 6- and 12-months with patient-reported questionnaires. In the intervention group (IG), patients receive the new patient-oriented self-management education program, whereas in the control group (CG), patients receive a basic educational program (usual care). The primary outcome is patients` subjective self-management competence. Secondary outcomes include behavioral determinants and self-management health behavior (symptom monitoring, physical activity, medication adherence), health-related quality of life, and treatment satisfaction. Outcomes are assessed by standardized measures. Treatment effects (between-group effects of IG and CG) will be evaluated separately for each follow-up time point using multilevel regression analysis, and adjusting for baseline values. Moderator analysis will be performed by including the moderator variable as additional fixed effect and examining interaction effects.
Health condition or problem studied
- ICD10:
- I50 - Heart failure
- Healthy volunteers:
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Interventions, Observational Groups
- Arm 1:
- Intervention condition is a new self-management educational program “Curriculum Heart Failure” that consists of 5 patient-oriented, interactive sessions of 60 or 75 minutes each, which are held in small groups of a closed format (15 participants or less). The program is manual-based and interdisciplinary with sessions led by a physician, a nurse, a psychologist and a physiotherapist, respectively. In each session, patients are actively involved in the educational process using a combination of didactic methods (short lectures, group discussion, practice, partner and individual work). Didactic materials included presentations, flipcharts, and two patient booklets (educational booklet with HF information and worksheets, symptom-monitoring diary for six months). Contents of the lessons include HF illness and treatment knowledge (e.g. aetiology, symptoms and signs, diagnostic, medical treatment options, medication) with regard to individual needs of the participants. Furthermore, there is a focus on self-management behaviors (e.g. dietary restrictions, attention to deterioration signs/symptoms, and daily weight and blood pressure monitoring) and medication adherence. To promote physical activity theory-based intervention techniques are applied (e.g. action and coping planning, self-monitoring). Additionally, signs of emotional distress according to HF and coping strategies are discussed.
- Arm 2:
- Control condition is treatment as usual. One lecture of basic medical education by a physician with duration of about 60 minutes. Information is mostly presented in a vertical manner. Contents included basic heart failure illness information on aetiology, symptoms and signs, pharmacological treatment, surgery, and self-management recommendations (e.g. symptom monitoring and health behavior). Patients get handouts which comprise main information, and worksheets.
Endpoints
- Primary outcome:
- 1) Self-management competence; Health Education Impact Questionnaire HeiQ - Scales Self-monitoring and insight, Skill and technique acquisition (german version; Schuler et al., 2012); time frame: admission, discharge, after 6 months, after 12 months. 2) Self-efficacy; Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire KCCQ (german version; Faller et al., 2005); time frame: admission, discharge, after 6 months, after 12 months.
- Secondary outcome:
- 1) Behavioral determinants: 1.1) Symptom control; adapted questionnaire for habit strength (Fleig et al., 2011); time frame: after 6 months, after 12 months. 1.2) Physical activity; HAPA-scales (Schwarzer et al., 2007; Sniehotta et al., 2005), modifiend version of Self-Report Habit Index SRHI (Fleig et al., 2011); time frame: admission, discharge, after 6 months, after 12 months. 1.3) Medication beliefs. Beliefs about Medicine Questionnaire BMQ-D (Horne & Weinman, 1999; german version, Opitz et al., 2008); time frame: admission, discharge, after 6 months, after 12 months. 2) Self-management behavior: 2.1) Symptom control; short questionnaire developed by our research group; time frame: admission, after 6 months, after 12 months. 2.2) Physical activity; Godin Leisure-Time Exercise Questionnaire, modified version (Godin et al., 1985); time frame: admission, after 6 months, after 12 months. 2.3) Medication adherence; Medication Adherence Report Scale MARS-D (german version; Mahler et al., 2010); time frame: admission, after 6 months, after 12 months. 2.4) Smoking; single items (www.gbe-bund.de); time frame: admission, discharge, after 6 months, after 12 months. 3) Health-related quality of life; Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire KCCQ (german version; Faller et al., 2005); time frame: admission, discharge, after 6 months, after 12 months. 4) cardiac events; time frame: after 6 months, after 12 months. 5) treatment satisfaction; short questionnaire developed by our research group (Meng et al., 2009); time frame: discharge.
Study Design
- Purpose:
- Treatment
- Allocation:
- Randomized controlled study
- Control:
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- Active control (effective treatment of control group)
- Phase:
- N/A
- Study type:
- Interventional
- Mechanism of allocation concealment:
- No Entry
- Blinding:
- Yes
- Assignment:
- Other
- Sequence generation:
- No Entry
- Who is blinded:
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- Patient/subject
Recruitment
- Recruitment Status:
- Recruiting complete, study complete
- Reason if recruiting stopped or withdrawn:
- No Entry
Recruitment Locations
- Recruitment countries:
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- Germany
- Number of study centers:
- Multicenter study
- Recruitment location(s):
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- Medical center Kirchbergklinik Bad Lauterberg
- Medical center Reha-Zentrum Bad Nauheim, Klinik Wetterau Bad Nauheim
- Medical center Klinik Möhnesee der Dr. Becker Klinikgesellschaft Möhnesee
- Medical center Segeberger Kliniken Bad Segeberg
Recruitment period and number of participants
- Planned study start date:
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- Actual study start date:
- 2012-01-02
- Planned study completion date:
- No Entry
- Actual Study Completion Date:
- 2014-12-31
- Target Sample Size:
- 540
- Final Sample Size:
- 475
Inclusion Criteria
- Sex:
- All
- Minimum Age:
- 18 Years
- Maximum Age:
- no maximum age
- Additional Inclusion Criteria:
- Chronic systolic heart failure HF (ICD-10: I50), left ventricular ejection fraction LVEF of 40 or less, and New York Heart Association NYHA functional classification of class II or III.
Exclusion Criteria
Acute events of decompensation, cognitive impairment, inadequate German language ability, and severe visual or hearing impairment.
Addresses
Primary Sponsor
- Address:
- Universität Würzburg, Abteilung für Medizinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, Medizinische Soziologie und RehabilitationswissenschaftenDr. Karin MengKlinikstr. 397070 WürzburgGermany
- Telephone:
- 0049 (0)931 3182074
- Fax:
- No Entry
- Contact per E-Mail:
- Contact per E-Mail
- URL:
- No Entry
- Investigator Sponsored/Initiated Trial (IST/IIT):
- Yes
Contact for Scientific Queries
- Address:
- Universität Würzburg, Abteilung für Medizinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, Medizinische Soziologie und RehabilitationswissenschaftenDr. Karin MengKlinikstr. 397070 WürzburgGermany
- Telephone:
- 0049 (0)931 3182074
- Fax:
- No Entry
- Contact per E-Mail:
- Contact per E-Mail
- URL:
- No Entry
Contact for Public Queries
- Address:
- Universität Würzburg, Abteilung für Medizinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, Medizinische Soziologie und RehabilitationswissenschaftenDr. Karin MengKlinikstr. 397070 WürzburgGermany
- Telephone:
- 0049 (0)931 3182074
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- Contact per E-Mail:
- Contact per E-Mail
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Principal Investigator
- Address:
- Universität Würzburg, Abteilung für Medizinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, Medizinische Soziologie und RehabilitationswissenschaftenDr. Karin MengKlinikstr. 397070 WürzburgGermany
- Telephone:
- 0049 (0)931 3182074
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- No Entry
- Contact per E-Mail:
- Contact per E-Mail
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Sources of Monetary or Material Support
Public funding institutions financed by tax money/Government funding body (German Research Foundation (DFG), Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), etc.)
- Address:
- Deutsche Rentenversicherung BundHohenzollerndamm 46/4710704 BerlinGermany
- Telephone:
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- Fax:
- No Entry
- Contact per E-Mail:
- Contact per E-Mail
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Ethics Committee
Address Ethics Committee
- Address:
- Ethik-Kommission der Universität Würzburg, Institut für Pharmakologie und ToxikologieVersbacher Str. 997078 WürzburgGermany
- Telephone:
- +49-931-3148315
- Fax:
- +49-931-3187520
- Contact per E-Mail:
- Contact per E-Mail
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Vote of leading Ethics Committee
- Vote of leading Ethics Committee
- Date of ethics committee application:
- 2011-03-02
- Ethics committee number:
- 60/11
- Vote of the Ethics Committee:
- Approved
- Date of the vote:
- 2011-04-19
Further identification numbers
- Other primary registry ID:
- No Entry
- EudraCT Number:
- No Entry
IPD - Individual Participant Data
- Do you plan to make participant-related data (IPD) available to other researchers in an anonymized form?:
- No
- IPD Sharing Plan:
- No Entry
Study protocol and other study documents
- Study protocols:
- Meng, K., Musekamp, G., Seekatz, B., Glatz, J., Karger, G., Kiwus, U., Knoglinger, E., Schubmann, R., Westphal, R. & Faller, H. (2013). Evaluation of a self-management patient education program for patients with chronic heart failure undergoing inpatient cardiac rehabilitation: Study protocol of a cluster randomized controlled trial. BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, 13:60. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2261-13-60 Meng, K., Musekamp, G., Schuler, M., Seekatz, B., Glatz, J., Karger, G., Kiwus, U., Knoglinger, E., Schubmann, R., Westphal, R. & Faller, H. (2016).The impact of a self-management patient education program for patients with chronic heart failure undergoing inpatient cardiac rehabilitation. Patient Education and Counseling DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2016.02.010
- Study abstract:
- No Entry
- Other study documents:
- No Entry
- Background literature:
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- Related DRKS studies:
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Publication of study results
- Planned publication:
- No Entry
- Publikationen/Studienergebnisse:
- Meng, K., Musekamp, G., Schuler, M., Seekatz, B., Glatz, J., Karger, G., Kiwus, U., Knoglinger, E., Schub-mann, R., Westphal, R. & Faller, H. (2016). The impact of a self-management patient education program for patients with chronic heart failure undergoing inpatient cardiac rehabilitation. Patient Ed-ucation and Counseling, 99, 1190-1197. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2016.02.010
- Date of first publication of study results:
- 2016-02-16
- DRKS entry published for the first time with results:
- 2023-01-24
Basic reporting
- Basic Reporting / Results tables:
- No Entry
- Brief summary of results:
- No Entry