Depression and Quality of Life in Chronic Heart Failure Patients and the Caregivers
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01197313 |
Recruitment Status
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Completed
First Posted
: September 9, 2010
Last Update Posted
: September 9, 2010
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Chronic Heart Failure (CHF) Anxiety and Depression Quality of Life (QOL) Exercise | Other: Home-based exercise | Not Applicable |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Actual Enrollment : | 51 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | Single (Participant) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | Depression and Quality of Life in Chronic Heart Failure Patients and the Caregivers |
Study Start Date : | December 2006 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | December 2007 |
Actual Study Completion Date : | December 2007 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: Exercise | Other: Home-based exercise |
- Psychologic aspect [ Time Frame: 8 weeks ]Anxiety and depression was measured by Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS).
- Functional capacity [ Time Frame: 8 weeks ]Functional capacity was assessed by six-minute walk test (6MWT).
- Disability level [ Time Frame: 8 weeks ]Groningen Activity Restriction Scale (GARS)
- Quality of life [ Time Frame: 8 weeks ]Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire (MHFQ) was used to assess quality of life.

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 20 Years to 80 Years (Adult, Senior) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Clinical diagnosis of CHF for more than 6 months (NYHA Classes I-III)
- Medically stable for at least 3 months
Exclusion Criteria:
- Malignancy
- Psychiatric disease, primary neuromusculoskeletal or respiratory diseases that affected the assessment of functional or exercise capacity
- Changes in medication occurred during the study period

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01197313
Taiwan | |
National Taiwan University Hospital | |
Taipei, Taiwan, 100 |
Principal Investigator: | Ying-Tai Wu, Ph.D | National Taiwan University Hospital |
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Responsible Party: | Ying-Tai Wu/ Associate professor, School and Graduate Institute of Physical Therapy, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01197313 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
9561709097 |
First Posted: | September 9, 2010 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | September 9, 2010 |
Last Verified: | September 2010 |
Keywords provided by National Taiwan University Hospital:
chronic heart failure (CHF); anxiety and depression; quality of life (QOL); exercise |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Depression Depressive Disorder Heart Failure Behavioral Symptoms |
Mood Disorders Mental Disorders Heart Diseases Cardiovascular Diseases |