Leveraging Home Health Aides to Improve Outcomes in Heart Failure

Brief summary (registry, in English)

The purpose of the study is to determine the effectiveness of an intervention among home health aides caring for adults admitted to home care with a primary diagnosis of heart failure at VNS Health Partners in Care (home care agency). The study will examine the interventions' effect on home health aides' heart failure knowledge and confidence caring for adults with heart failure, as well as on the client's overall health (visits to the emergency department and hospital readmissions).

What you commit to

• Study type: Interventional
• Participants enrolled: 105
• From 16 May 2022 to the primary completion date, 17 Aug 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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Who the study is looking for

Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (1)

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Related publications

• Home Health Aides Caring for Adults With Heart Failure: A Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA Netw Open · 2025 · PMID 41213039