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January 1, 2008Congestive Heart FailureOpen Access

Improving Heart Failure Self‐Management Support by Actively Engaging Out‐of‐Home Caregivers: Results of a Feasibility Study

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Key result

Augmented HF care management involving out-of-home caregivers proves feasible, achieving ~92% assessment completion.

  • n=52

Why the study?

Does augmenting HF care management with automated calls and caregiver feedback improve self-care in HF patients?

Population

52 heart failure (HF) patient-CarePartner (CP) pairs

Design

Cohort

Follow-up

average of 12 weeks

Authors

JPJohn D. PietteMGMary Ann GregorDSDavid Share

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Overview

Supports exploring automated HF support with informal caregivers; leaves open efficacy and outcomes in randomized trials.

Structured PICO

Does augmenting HF care management with automated calls and caregiver feedback improve self-care in HF patients?

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Population
52 heart failure patient-caregiver pairs participating in a 12-week feasibility study of augmented care management.
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Intervention
Augmenting HF care management with weekly, automated assessment and behavior change calls to patients, feedback via the Internet to an out-of-home informal caregiver or CarePartner (CP), and faxes to the patient's health care team for an average of 12 weeks
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Outcome
Feasibility (assessment completion rate and self-care changes)patient reported

An automated assessment and caregiver feedback program is highly feasible and may improve self-care behaviors in heart failure patients.

Cite This Study

Piette et al. (2008) studied Heart failure (n=52). Augmented HF care management with automated calls and caregiver feedback was evaluated on Assessment completion rate. An augmented heart failure care management program involving out-of-home caregivers was feasible, achieving a 92% assessment completion rate and prompting self-care changes in 75% of patients.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aa75c828fe47ba7346d1e69https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-7133.2008.07474.x
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