NCT03963583Completed
Heart Failure Resilience Intervention for Caregivers
Heart Failure Resilience Intervention for Caregivers (HEROIC)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 24 Nov 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
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.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 33 (actual)
- First submitted
- 23 May 2019
- Start date
- Apr 2022
- Primary completion date
- Oct 2024
- Lead sponsor
- Johns Hopkins University
- Diseases
- Heart failure
- NCT number
- NCT03963583
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 33
- From Apr 2022 to the primary completion date, Oct 2024
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Other
- 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.
Who the study is looking for
- 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.
Age in the registry: 50 years to - · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johns Hopkins School of Nursing Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Baltimore | United States | Unknown status |
Related publications
- Goal attainment scaling in the heart failure and stroke resilience caregiver intervention pilot study.J Patient Rep Outcomes · 2026 · PMID 42142302
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