Trial reportJournal of cardiac failure2011
The effect of progressive, reinforcing telephone education and counseling versus brief educational intervention on knowledge, self-care behaviors and heart failure symptoms.
Trial report in Journal of cardiac failure, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 45 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
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Health Literacy and Self-Management in Heart Failure
Video-based Teach-to-goal Intervention on Inhaler Technique on Adults With Asthma and COPD: a Randomized Controlled Trial
Who cites it
45 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 118 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effect of telemedicine on the quality of life of people with heart disease: a systematic review.Revista latino-americana de enfermagem · 2025Pooled it
- Telemonitoring for heart failure: a meta-analysis.European heart journal · 2023Pooled it
- Telemedicine to Support Heart Failure Patients during Social Distancing: A Systematic Review.Global heart · 2022Pooled it
- mHealth education interventions in heart failure.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Meaning-making and quality of life in heart failure interventions: a systematic review.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2019Pooled it
- Effect Sizes and Primary Outcomes in Large-Budget, Cardiovascular-Related Behavioral Randomized Controlled Trials Funded by NIH Since 1980.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2016Pooled it
- Structured telephone support or non-invasive telemonitoring for patients with heart failure.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015Pooled it
- Health Literacy and Heart Failure: A Systematic Review.The Journal of cardiovascular nursingPooled it
- Video-based teach-to-goal intervention on inhaler technique on adults with asthma and COPD: A randomized controlled trial.PloS one · 2023Trial
- Trajectory of self-care in people with stable heart failure and insomnia after two self-care interventions.Patient education and counseling · 2022Trial
- Pilot Study of a Brief WeChat Intervention in China to Increase Students' Willingness to Assist a Flushing Student to Reduce Alcohol Use.Journal of preventive medicine and public health = Yebang Uihakhoe chi · 2018Trial
- Impact of Telemonitoring on Health Status.Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes · 2017Trial
- Motivational interviewing to improve self-care for patients with chronic heart failure: MITI-HF randomized controlled trial.Patient education and counseling · 2016Trial
- Short message service (SMS) can enhance compliance and reduce cancellations in a sedation gastrointestinal endoscopy center: a prospective randomized controlled trial.Journal of medical systems · 2015Trial
- Design and methods of "diaBEAT-it!": a hybrid preference/randomized control trial design using the RE-AIM framework.Contemporary clinical trials · 2014Trial
- Low literacy is associated with increased risk of hospitalization and death among individuals with heart failure.Journal of general internal medicine · 2013Trial
- Multisite randomized trial of a single-session versus multisession literacy-sensitive self-care intervention for patients with heart failure.Circulation · 2012Trial
- The comparative efficacy of comprehensive self-care interventions in chronic illness: An updated meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.International journal of nursing studies advances · 2026Review
- Telemonitoring modalities in heart failure: comparative effectiveness across the heart failure population-a meta-analysis.NPJ digital medicine · 2026Article
- Assessment of eHealth literacy among cardiovascular disease patients and analysis of influencing factors.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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13 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundThe optimal strategy for promoting self-care for heart failure (HF) is unclear. METHODS AND
resultsWe conducted a randomized trial to determine whether a "teach to goal" (TTG) educational and behavioral support program provided incremental benefits to a brief (1 hour) educational intervention (BEI) for knowledge, self-care behaviors, and HF-related quality of life (HFQOL). The TTG program taught use of adjusted-dose diuretics and then reinforced learning goals and behaviors with 5 to 8 telephone counseling sessions over 1 month. Participants' (n = 605) mean age was 61 years; 37% had marginal or inadequate literacy; 69% had ejection fraction <0.45; and 31% had Class III or IV symptoms. The TTG group had greater improvements in general and salt knowledge (P < .001) and greater increases in self-care behaviors (from mean 4.8 to 7.6 for TTG vs. 5.2 to 6.7 for BEI; P < .001). HFQOL improved from 58.5 to 64.6 for the TTG group but did not change for the BEI group (64.7 to 63.9; P < .001 for the difference in change scores). Improvements were similar regardless of participants' literacy level.
conclusionsTelephone reinforcement of learning goals and self-care behaviors improved knowledge, health behaviors, and HF-related QOL compared to a single education session.
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