Eligibility Module
The Eligibility Module contains detailed information about who can participate in the clinical trial. This includes eligibility criteria, age restrictions, gender requirements, healthy volunteer status, and study population descriptions, helping researchers understand who is eligible to participate in the study.
Eligibility Module path is as follows:
Study -> Protocol Section -> Eligibility Module
Eligibility Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-24 @ 3:00 PM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-24 @ 3:00 PM
NCT ID:
NCT04917159
Eligibility Criteria:
Patient-caregiver dyads will be recruited as units if both are eligible as listed below.
1. Patient
* Inclusion Criteria:
* 18 years or older
* a confirmed diagnosis of Chronic Heart Failure (CHF) according to international guidelines
* with New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional classification I to III
* has been hospitalized in the past one year
* able to nominate a primary family caregiver (if two or more family members where the primary caregivers of the patient, the one who had the highest average contact hours with the patient)
* can understand and communicate in Chinese
* can access Tencent VooV Meeting via smartphone for attending the intervention
* Exclusion Criteria:
* has a documented medical history of psychiatric illness, dementia, and life-threatening, such as end-stage renal failure, severe pulmonary disease and respiratory disease
* has cognitive impairment evaluated with a score of 0-2 on the Mini-Cog scale
* living in a nursing home
2. Caregiver
* Inclusion Criteria:
* 18 years or older
* can understand and communicate in Chinese
* have been providing care to the patient for more than 14 hours per week for at least three consecutive months
* can access Tencent VooV Meeting via smartphone for attending the intervention
* Exclusion Criteria:
* paid caregivers
* has a documented medical history of psychiatric illness, dementia, and life-threatening, such as end-stage renal failure, severe pulmonary disease and respiratory disease
* has cognitive impairment evaluated with a score of 0-2 on the Mini-Cog scale
Healthy Volunteers:
True
Sex:
ALL
Minimum Age:
18 Years
Study:
NCT04917159
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT04917159