Coping Effectiveness Training in Patients With Chronic Heart Failure
Heart Failure

About this trial
This is an interventional supportive care trial for Heart Failure focused on measuring Adaptation, Psychological, Heart Failure, Intervention Studies, Quality of Life, Hospital Readmission, Depression, Anxiety
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients diagnosed with CHF hospitalized at a heart failure ward or a heart failure outpatient clinic in Stockholm County Council, Sweden, are classified in NYHA-class II-III and are aged over 18 years.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Cognitive dysfunction
- life threatening disease such as cancer or primary organ failure and/or severe psychiatric diagnosis such as psychosis or severe depression, and
- not being able to understand the Swedish language.
Sites / Locations
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
No Intervention
Coping effectiveness Training (CET)
Control
The intervention consists of Coping Effectiveness Training (CET), a manual-based group intervention based on a cognitive transactional theory of stress and coping. The purpose of CET is to improve skills to appraise stress, teach a number of techniques to cope with stress, and to give an opportunity to interact with other people with similar experiences of living with CHF. The CET program will, in this study, be modified for patients with CHF. The intervention consists of seven, 90-minute weekly sessions led by a nurse with a Masters degree in nursing science and extensive experience in heart failure care in collaboration with a professional psychologist. Each group consisted of 8 to 12 patients.
The control group will receive standard health care and will not take part of the intervention.