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Randomized clinical trial of an integrated self-care intervention for persons with heart failure and diabetes: quality of life and physical functioning outcomes

Author: Dunbar, S. B. Country/countries: United States Number of patients participating in the study: 134 This study was focused on patients living with Heart Failure
Intervention analysed in the study: Usual Care Plus Intervention components: UCP
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Setting of implementation: Hospital care (hospitalized), Outpatient care (hospital) Professionals delivering the intervention: Educator Targeted self-management behaviours: Self-monitoring
Intervention analysed in the study: Monitoring, action-based and emotional-based behavioural techniques and social support Intervention components: E+MT+AB+EB+SS
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Setting of implementation: Home-care, Hospital care (hospitalized), Outpatient care (hospital) Professionals delivering the intervention: Nurses Targeted self-management behaviours: Condition-specific behaviours, Early recognition of symptoms, Eating behaviours, Medication use and adherence, Physical activity /exercise, Self-monitoring

Outcomes measured in the study

Outcome Measure Tool
Exercise capacity (including effort test) Exercise capacity 6-min walking test (6MWT)
Physical Activities Physical activities N/A
Quality of life Quality of life N/A
Quality of life Quality of life EuroQoL (EQ-5D-5L) - generic HRQoL
Quality of life Quality of life EuroQol Visual Analogue Scale (EQ-5D VA)

Patient characteristics

Age: 57.4 years (+/- a standard deviation of 10.6) Gender: N/A Time since diagnosis of Heart Failure: N/A Severity of the disease: N/A Multi-morbidity: Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI)
  • 4.11 (+/- a standard deviation of 2.3)

  • Number of co-morbidities: 1.0

Level of health literacy: N/A
  • Tool: N/A

Socio-economic characteristics: N/A

Risk of Bias of this study

Outcome Random sequence generation Allocation concealment Blinding performance Blinding detection objective outcomes assessment Attrition incomplete outcome Incorrect statistical methods Recruitment bias Selective outcome reporting
Exercise capacity (including effort test) - Exercise capacity
Physical Activities - Physical activities
Quality of life - Quality of life
Quality of life - Quality of life
Quality of life - Quality of life

Other publications associated with this study

An economic evaluation of a self-care intervention in persons with heart failure and diabetes Link: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2015.06.382.