Development and Evaluation of 'My Voice': a Randomized Controlled Trial
Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School
244 participants
Mar 7, 2024
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
The study aims to develop and evaluate a web-based interactive platform (called 'My Voice') that helps to educate patients with heart failure and their caregivers about heart failure, identify their goals for end-of-life care, and share these with their caregivers and doctors.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria16
- Age ≥ 21 years old
- Singaporean or Permanent Resident
- Diagnosed with heart failure
- Symptoms classified under NYHA class II (with an ejection fraction of less than or equal to 35%), III or IV
- Intact cognition determined through the Abbreviated Mental Test (AMT) (for pilot testing and main RCT)
- Ability to speak and read English, Mandarin or Malay
- Willing to complete a web intervention
- Easily contactable via mobile phone or landline
- Have a permanent address in Singapore for at least the next 1 year
- Not recruited in a previous phase of the study
- Age ≥ 21 years old
- Nominated as a healthcare spokesperson by the patient or the main decision maker for the patient (for intervention arm only)
- Ability to speak and read English, Mandarin or Malay
- Willing to complete a web intervention
- Easily contactable via mobile phone or landline
- Have a permanent address in Singapore for at least the next 1 year
Exclusion Criteria1
- a) domestic helper
Interventions
The web intervention educates patients about their illness and supports them to make their own Advance Care Planning decisions, update these decisions frequently as their clinical condition changes, and to make the ACP process easier and more accessible. The intervention aims to shift implementation of ACP from a provider-led one-time model to a patient-led dynamic model.
Locations(1)
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NCT06090734