NCT05806606

Effect and Cost Effectiveness of a Dyadic Empowerment-based Heart Failure Management Program for Self-care

Active, enrolled NA Last updated 6 April 2026

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Dyadic empowerment based heart failure management program in Heart Failure in 232 participants. Participants enrolled and being followed up; not accepting new ones.

Timeline

17 April 2023

Primary endpoint
1 September 2025

1 June 2026

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	The University of Hong Kong
Phase	NA
Status	Active, enrolled
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	double
Primary purpose	supportive care
Enrollment	232
Start date	17 April 2023
Primary completion	1 September 2025
Estimated completion	1 June 2026
Sites	1 location across Hong Kong

Drugs / interventions tested

• Dyadic empowerment based heart failure management program
• Dyadic education program

Conditions studied

• Heart Failure — all drugs for Heart Failure →
• Self Care — all drugs for Self Care →
• Empowerment — all drugs for Empowerment →
• Transitional Care — all drugs for Transitional Care →

Sponsor

The University of Hong Kong

Who can join

18 and older, any sex, with Heart Failure or Self Care. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Global population aging has drastically increased healthcare spending worldwide, with the greatest portion going to hospital and community health services. Heart failure (HF), as the final form of many cardiovascular diseases resulting from insufficient myocardial pumping. Ineffective self-care is consistently identified as the major modifiable risk factor for HF decompensation requiring hospitalization. It refers to an active cognitive process that influence patients' engagement in self-care maintenance, symptom perception and self-care management. However, current studies pay much focus on interventions such as motivational interviewing and behavioural activation to enhance the HF-related self-care and health outcomes which only produces short-term benefits. In fact, the lack of a sustainable effect from the self-care supportive interventions might be related the use of patient-centric design in these studies, which totally ignores the fact that HF management takes place in a dyadic context. To advance, active strategies were adopted to mobilize collaborative effort of the dyad in actual disease management.

This study aims to evaluate the effects and cost-effectiveness of a Dyadic empowerment-based Heart Failure Management Program (De-HF) for self-care, health outcomes, and health service utilization among HF patients who require family support after hospital discharge. The De-HF program is based on the Theory of Dyadic Illness Management to enhance the congruence in illness perception and active dyadic collaboration in managing HF via both face-to-face and online platforms.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial.