Trial reportEuropean journal of cardiovascular nursing2019
Caregiver outcomes of the REACH-HF multicentre randomized controlled trial of home-based rehabilitation for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction.
Trial report in European journal of cardiovascular nursing, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 54 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effectiveness of interventions for informal caregivers of people with end-stage chronic illness: a systematic review.Systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Social network interventions to support cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention in the management of people with heart disease.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- Clinicians for CARE: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Interventions to Support Caregivers of Patients With Heart Disease.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2021Pooled it
- Caregivers' Contributions to Heart Failure Self-care: An Updated Systematic Review.The Journal of cardiovascular nursingPooled it
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- Personalizing Care for Informal Heart Failure Caregivers: Challenges and Practical Implications.Current heart failure reports · 2025Review
- The Impact of an Intervention to Improve Caregiver Contribution to Heart Failure Self-care on Caregiver Anxiety, Depression, Quality of Life, and Sleep.The Journal of cardiovascular nursing · 2023Article
- Fit for Duty: Lessons Learned from Outpatient and Homebound Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation to Prepare Family Caregivers for Home-Based Care.Transplantation and cellular therapy · 2023Article
- Factors that influence the provision of home-based rehabilitation services for people needing rehabilitation: a qualitative evidence synthesis.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Review
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- Why Do so Few People with Heart Failure Receive Cardiac Rehabilitation?Cardiac failure review · 2022Review
- Behavioral Interventions for the Patient-Caregiver Unit in Patients with Chronic Heart Failure: A Systematic Review of Caregiver Outcomes.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2022Review
- Attachment insecurities, caregiver burden, and psychological distress among partners of patients with heart disease.PloS one · 2022Article
- Quality of life and disease experience in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction in Spain: a mixed-methods study.BMJ open · 2021Observational
- Caregivers of Patients with Heart Failure: Burden and the Determinants of Health-Related Quality of Life.Patient preference and adherence · 2021Article
- The year in cardiology: heart failure.European heart journal · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundCaregivers frequently provide support to people living with long-term conditions. However, there is paucity of evidence of interventions that support caregivers in their role. Rehabilitation EnAblement in Chronic Heart Failure (REACH-HF) is a novel home-based, health-professional-facilitated, self-management programme for patients with heart failure (HF) and their caregivers.
methodsBased on the random allocation of individual adult patients with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) and left ventricular ejection fraction <45% within the past five years, the caregiver of patients was allocated to receive the REACH-HF intervention over 12 weeks (REACH-HF group) or not (control group). Caregiver outcomes were generic health-related quality of life (EQ-5D-5L), Family Caregiver Quality of Life Scale questionnaire (FamQol), Caregiver Burden Questionnaire HF (CBQ-HF), Caregiver Contribution to Self-care of HF Index questionnaire (CC-SCHFI) and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). Outcomes were compared between groups at 4, 6 and 12 months follow-up. Twenty caregivers receiving REACH-HF were purposively selected for qualitative interviews at 4 and 12 months.
resultsCompared with controls (44 caregivers), the REACH-HF group (53 caregivers) had a higher mean CC-SCHFI confidence score at 12 months (57.5 vs 62.8, adjusted mean difference: 9.3, 95% confidence interval: 1.8-16.8,
conclusionProvision of the REACH-HF intervention for caregivers of HF patients improved their confidence of self-management and was perceived for some to be helpful in supporting their caregiver role.
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