N/A
N=19
Heart Failure Resilience Intervention for Caregivers
Heart Failure · Caregivers
Bottom Line
View on ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT03963583 ↗Enrolled (actual)
19
Serious AEs
0.0%
Results posted
Nov 2025
Primary outcome: Primary: Goal Attainment of Preventive Health Behaviors as Measured by the Goal Attainment Scale — 40; 40; 57.5; 52.5 t-score
Study Design & Population
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- N/A
- Interventions
- HEROIC (Behavioral)
- Age
- Adult, Older Adult · 50+ yrs
- Sex
- All
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins University
- Primary completion
- Oct 2024
Outcome Measures
| Outcome | Result | p-value |
|---|---|---|
| PRIMARY Goal Attainment of Preventive Health Behaviors as Measured by the Goal Attainment Scale |
40; 40; 57.5; 52.5; 68; 51.7 | — |
| PRIMARY Caregiver Burden as Assessed by the Oberst Caregiving Burden Scale |
50.2; 46.8; 40.9; 43.0; 34.4; 45.4 | — |
| PRIMARY Quality of Life as Assessed by the Neurological Quality of Life(Neuro-QOL) |
36.2; 34.4; 37.3; 31.4; 38.0; 33.5 | — |
| SECONDARY Self-Efficacy as Assessed by the Coping Self Efficacy Scale |
92.1; 85.6; 79.3; 71.0; 98.5; 84.6 | — |
Summary
Heart failure (HF) patients with supportive caregivers have better physical health, emotional health, and quality of life. But caregivers have an increased risk of caregivers' own worsening health and often feel a sense of burden related to caregiving. However, caregivers receive very little support to balance caring for the patient with caring for themselves. Therefore, this research will provide a program for caregivers of advanced heart failure patients to build on the caregiver's strengths, sense of purpose, and set goals for healthy lifestyle changes. The investigators believe that caregivers who receive the program will have better quality of life, less sense of burden, and a healthier lifestyle.
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.
Data sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT03963583). Outcome figures and adverse-event rates are extracted automatically from the registry's posted results and are provided for clinician reference, not as a substitute for the primary publication.