"Info-AF" Information Preferences in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation/Flutter and the Association With Clinical Symptoms

Medical University of Vienna130 enrolled

Overview

The aim of this project is to identify a variable that discerns patients who are interested in their disease (atrial fibrillation/atrial flutter) from patients who show no interest and furthermore test this theory in a questionnaire survey. This should help distinguish between patients who are interested in shared decision making and patients who are not (further projects planned).

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

130

Conditions

Atrial Fibrillation

Interventions

QuestionnaireOTHER

Questionnaire including questions about Quality of life, symptoms and general informations

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 99 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Current atrial fibrillation/flutter * \>18 years of age * sufficient knowledge of the german language to fill out the questionnaire Exclusion Criteria: * \< 18 years of age * insufficient knowledge of the german language to fill out the questionnaire * Hemodynamic instability

Locations (1)

AKH Wien

Vienna, Austria

RECRUITING

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Preferences for autonomy measured with questionnaire

Potential predictors of the outcome are clinical symptoms. Additional covariables will be patient characteristics including age and gender and disease characteristics. Regression analysis will be used as the main statistical method. Descriptive statistics and graphs and inferential statistics will be used as appropriate.

Time frame: through study completion, an average of 1 year

Central Contacts

Nikola Schütz, Dr.med.univ.

CONTACT

004314040019640 nikola.schuetz@meduniwien.ac.at

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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