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

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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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.

Detailed Description
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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

Official Title
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Impact of Nutritional Orientations on Adherence to Diet and Relation to Nutritional, Clinical and Life Quality Parameters of Heart Failure Outpatients

Conditions
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Nutrition, Heart Failure

Intervention / Treatment
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* Behavioral: Nutritional education


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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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

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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No

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Experimental: Control<br>Usual care with medical and nursing staff | Behavioral: Nutritional education<br>* Systematic nutritional orientation program<br>|
| Experimental: Intervention<br>Usual care with medical and nursing staff and additional nutritional guidance about diet and its relationship with disease, sources of nutrients, and reduction of dietary sodium and fats. Enforcement of the nutritional guidance was performed after 4 weeks. | Behavioral: Nutritional education<br>* Systematic nutritional orientation program<br>|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Diet adherence |  | 1 year | 

Secondary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Knowledge about nutrition, nutritional status, biochemical parameters and life quality |  | 1 year | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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nutritional education, diet adherence, nutritional knowledge, life quality, nutritional status, impact of nutritional orientations by a systematic education program applied to outpatients with HF, in comparison to patients in a conventional treatment.