Nutritional Orientations and Adherence, Nutritional Status, Clinical and Life Quality Parameters of Heart Failure (HF) Patients

Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul46 enrolled

Overview

The nutritional systematic orientations in outpatients with heart failure throughout 1 year in comparison to conventional treatment is estimated to lead to higher nutritional treatment adherence and improved nutritional status, clinical and life quality parameters.

To evaluate the impact of systematic nutritional orientation on adherence to diet and relation to clinical, life quality and nutritional knowledge parameters in heart failure outpatients. * To evaluate the impact of systematic nutritional orientation on nutritional status; * To evaluate the impact of nutritional systematic orientation on dietary patterns * To evaluate the impact of systematic nutritional orientation on clinical and biochemical parameters * To evaluate the impact of nutritional systematic orientation on life quality * To evaluate the impact of nutritional systematic orientation on nutritional knowledge

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Nutrition Heart Failure

Interventions

Nutritional educationBEHAVIORAL

Systematic nutritional orientation program

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * \>= 18 years old * Outpatients from the HF Ambulatory (HCPA) * Functional class I and II (NYHA) Exclusion Criteria: * Outpatient who had received any orientation from a nutritionist in the last 6 months * Outpatients which has not received nursing orientation in the ambulatory, * Patients from other NYHA class * Non alphabetized

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Diet adherence

Time frame: 1 year

Secondary Outcomes

Knowledge about nutrition, nutritional status, biochemical parameters and life quality

Time frame: 1 year

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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