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ArticlePilot and feasibility studies2023

Taking Care of Us© (TCU) study protocol: feasibility and acceptability of a dyadic intervention for couples living with heart failure.

Karen S Lyons, Carol J Whitlatch, Amanda R Vest, Jenica N Upshaw, Stacy Hutton Johnson, Jeremiah Morelock, Christopher S Lee

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Article in Pilot and feasibility studies, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04737759 (Taking Care of Us), which is not on this map. Cited by 6 papers.

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT04737759 nacompletednot on this map

Taking Care of Us: A Dyadic Intervention for Heart Failure

TypeinterventionalSponsorBoston CollegeRan2021 to 2023Enrolled74ConditionsHeart FailureArmsTaking Care of Us, SUPPORT
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Karen S LyonsBoston College William F. Connell School of Nursing, Maloney Hall, 231, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA, 02467, USA. karen.lyons@bc.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9349-6057
Carol J WhitlatchCenter for Research and Education, Benjamin Rose Institute On Aging, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Amanda R VestCardiac Transplantation Program, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
Jenica N UpshawTufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
Stacy Hutton JohnsonCanopy Consultants Inc., Arlington, MA, USA.
Jeremiah MorelockBoston College William F. Connell School of Nursing, Maloney Hall, 231, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA, 02467, USA.
Christopher S LeeBoston College William F. Connell School of Nursing, Maloney Hall, 231, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA, 02467, USA.
Boston College · USTufts University · USBenjamin Rose Institute on Aging · US

Funding

Taking Care of Us: A Dyadic Intervention for Heart FailureR21AG068715 · NIA · BOSTON COLLEGE · PI LEE, CHRISTOPHER SEAN, LYONS, KAREN S · 2020 to 2021
$433k
NIA NIH HHS R21 AG068715NIA NIH HHS R21AG068715
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThere are more than 1 million hospital admissions and 3 million emergency visits for heart failure in the USA annually. Although spouse/partners make substantial contributions to the management of heart failure and experience poor health and high levels of care strain, they are rarely the focus of heart failure interventions. This protocol describes a pilot randomized controlled trial that tests the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary change in outcomes of a seven-session couple-based intervention called Taking Care of Us© (TCU). The TCU© intervention is grounded in the theory of dyadic illness management and was developed to promote collaborative illness management and better physical and mental health of adults with heart failure and their partners.

methodsA two-arm randomized controlled trial will be conducted. Eligible adults with heart failure and their co-residing spouse/partner will be recruited from a clinical site in the USA and community/social media outreach and randomized to either the TCU© intervention or to a control condition (SUPPORT©) that offers education around heart failure management. The target sample is 60 couples (30 per arm). TCU© couples will receive seven sessions over 2 months via Zoom; SUPPORT© couples will receive three sessions over 2 months via Zoom. All participants will complete self-report measures at baseline (T1), post-treatment (T2), and 3 months post-treatment (T3). Acceptability and feasibility of the intervention will be examined using both closed-ended and open-ended questions as well as enrollment, retention, completion, and satisfaction metrics. Preliminary exploration of change in outcomes of TCU© on dyadic health, dyadic appraisal, and collaborative management will also be conducted. DISCUSSION: Theoretically driven, evidence-based dyadic interventions are needed to optimize the health of both members of the couple living with heart failure. Results from this study will provide important information about recruitment and retention and benefits and drawbacks of the TCU© program to directly inform any needed refinements of the program and decision to move to a main trial.

trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov (NCT04737759) registered on 27 January 2021.

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CollaborationCommunicationCouplesDyadic healthHeart failureMental healthPhysical healthSupportZoom-based

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PMID36698174
PMCPMC9875187
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