RecruitingNot ApplicableNCT06090734

Development and Evaluation of 'My Voice': a Randomized Controlled Trial


Sponsor

Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School

Enrollment

244 participants

Start Date

Mar 7, 2024

Study Type

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

Min Age: 21 Years

Plain Language Summary

Simplified for easier understanding

This study is testing a web-based tool called 'My Voice' that helps patients with heart failure and their caregivers communicate their treatment preferences and end-of-life wishes to their medical team. The goal is to improve advance care planning and make sure patients' values guide their medical decisions. **You may be eligible if (as a patient)...** - You are 21 or older, a Singaporean citizen or permanent resident - You have been diagnosed with heart failure (NYHA class II with ejection fraction ≤ 35%, or class III/IV) - You have adequate cognition (based on Abbreviated Mental Test) - You can speak and read English, Mandarin, or Malay - You have a mobile phone or landline and a permanent Singapore address **You may NOT be eligible if...** - You have significant cognitive impairment - You do not speak English, Mandarin, or Malay - You were previously enrolled in an earlier phase of this study - You are unwilling to complete a web-based program Talk to your doctor to see if this trial is right for you.

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Interventions

OTHERMy Voice

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)

Duke-NUS

Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

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