Effective Management of Emotional Response to Generate Well-Being Post-HF Exacerbation

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Trial end date: 0000-00-00
• Target enrollment: 30
• Participant gender: All

Summary

EMERGE is a PI-initiated feasibility study that aims to evaluate the accessibility, usability, effectiveness and relevance of an integrated psycho-behavioral intervention on heart failure patients in order to increase support, outreach and general well-being of these patients following hospitalization due to heart failure exacerbation.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Duke University
• Last Updated: 2017-05-30

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adult male and female patients, age ≥ 18 hospitalized at Duke inpatient service because of heart failure

• NYHA Class ≥ II

Exclusion Criteria:

• Significant cognitive impairment, indicated as a mini-mental state exam (MMSE) total score of 23 or lower

• Lack of convenient internet access outside of hospital

• Alcohol or other drug dependence/abuse within past 90 days as evaluated by review of medical record and patient interview (SCID)

• Severe physical disability (visual, sensory or motor) that may interfere with study participation (assessment, online interactive learning)

• History or presence of psychoses, bipolar disorder, and/or severe personality disorders as evaluated by review of medical record and patient interview (SCID)

• Life-threatening co-morbidity with the likelihood of 50% mortality in one year

• Active suicidal ideations

• Female patients of childbearing potential

• Treatment with electroconvulsive therapy or transcranial magnetic stimulation within past 90 days

• Uncorrected hypothyroidism or hyperthyroidism