Heart Failure Resilience Intervention for Caregivers (HEROIC)
Heart Failure, Caregivers
About this trial
This is an interventional supportive care trial for Heart Failure focused on measuring Heart Failure, Caregivers, Resilience, Preventive Health Behaviors
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion criteria:
Aim 1 inclusion criteria:
- Patients with a HF hospitalization in the last year and their informal caregivers (inclusion criteria below), nurse practitioners, physicians and members of the multidisciplinary team rounds will be included in focus groups.
Aim 2 & 3 Inclusion:
Caregivers of patients served by the HF Bridge Clinic will be included if
- the patient was hospitalized within 6 months
- the caregiver agrees to work on goals that increase preventive health behaviors and/or decrease burden
- caregivers live with the patient or visit them to provide care more than 3 times per week
- the caregiver is 50 years or older and e) the caregiver is the spouse/partner or child of the patient.
Exclusion criteria:
Caregivers who
- themselves have a terminal diagnosis
- or are cognitively impaired based on Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) screening will be excluded as response to the intervention may vary in these groups.
Sites / Locations
- Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
Experimental
HEROIC Intervention Group
Waitlist Control Group
This group will receive the HEROIC intervention.
The waitlisted group will receive usual care for caregivers for the first 12 weeks, which is normally limited to inclusion in some clinical assessment and teaching during patient visits. Waitlisted participants will receive monthly study postcards to encourage retention. After 12 weeks, they will begin the intervention.