NCT04829617Recruiting
Promoting Well-being and Health in Heart Failure
A Novel Behavioral Intervention to Promote Adherence in Heart Failure
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 14 Apr 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The focus of this study is to test the efficacy of a 12-week, phone-delivered Positive Psychology-Motivational Interviewing (PP-MI) intervention, with additional twice weekly PP and health behavior text messages for a total of 24 weeks (with interactive, algorithm-driven, goal-focused text messages in the final 12 weeks), compared to an attention-matched MI-based educational condition, in a randomized trial (NIH Stage II) of 280 patients with New York Heart Association class I-III Heart Failure (HF).
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 280 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 31 Mar 2021
- Start date
- 29 Nov 2021
- Primary completion date
- 30 Jun 2027
- Lead sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Diseases
- Heart failure
- NCT number
- NCT04829617
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 280
- From 29 Nov 2021 to the primary completion date, 30 Jun 2027
- 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 illness
- Medical conditions likely to lead to death within 6 months.
- Inability to participate in physical activity due to another medical condition (e.g., arthritis).
Other
- Cognitive deficits impeding a participant's ability to provide informed consent or participate, assessed via a 6-item cognitive test.
- Inability to read, write, or speak in English.
- Current participation in another intervention or program that has been designed to promote well-being or health behavior adherence.
Who the study is looking for
- Adult patients with NYHA class I, II, or III HF.
- Suboptimal adherence to health behaviors. This will be defined as a total score of ≤15 on three Medical Outcomes Study Specific Adherence Scale (MOS) items regarding diet/exercise/medications.
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts General Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Boston | United States | Recruiting |
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