NCT05864469Completed
A Psychosocial Dyadic Programme for Patients With Heart Failure and Their Family Caregivers
The Effects of a Psychosocial Dyadic Intervention on the Mutuality, Psychological and Quality of Life Outcomes of Patients With Heart Failure and Their Family Caregivers: A Mixed-methods Study
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 24 Sept 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The overall aim of the study is to evaluate the effects of a psychosocial dyadic intervention on mutuality, psychological strengths (i.e., resilience and self-compassion), psychological distress (i.e., anxiety and depression), and QoL outcomes of HF patients and caregivers. The HF patient-caregiver dyads will be randomly allocated to the intervention group to receive a 12-week relationship-focused psychosocial dyadic intervention, or to the control group to receive the usual care provided by the clinical team in the hospital.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 192 (actual)
- First submitted
- 9 May 2023
- Start date
- 30 May 2023
- Primary completion date
- 2 Feb 2025
- Lead sponsor
- The University of Hong Kong
- Diseases
- Heart failure
- NCT number
- NCT05864469
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 192
- From 30 May 2023 to the primary completion date, 2 Feb 2025
- 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
- psychiatric problems requiring active treatment
- other terminal illnesses, such as advanced cancer
- with mechanical circulatory support, on the heart transplant list or with a history of heart transplant
Who the study is looking for
- patients and caregivers aged 18 years or older
- patients diagnosed with heart failure
- able to identify one family caregiver who provides unpaid daily caregiving≥3.5hr/ day to participate
- patients and caregivers able to read simplified Chinese and communicate in Mandarin
- have access to a telephone at home.
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Wuhan | China | Unknown status |
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