Palliative Care for People With HF

NCT07356843 | Recruiting

• 1 other identifier: 28648
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 20
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Imagine having heart failure, a condition where the heart struggles to pump blood, making daily life hard. People with heart failure often don't feel well and end up going to the hospital a lot. Many of these people could feel better with extra help, but there aren't many programs that offer support beyond usual heart failure treatments. That's where the ADAPT program comes in, which stands for "Advancing Symptom Alleviation with Palliative Treatment." In this program, nurses and social workers call people weekly, helping them manage their toughest symptoms, offering tools to cope with heart failure, and keeping the patients' current doctors involved. We tested this program in a research study with heart failure patients and found that it improved their quality of life and lowered depression, anxiety, and heart failure symptoms. The question now is if the ADAPT program will work in the community, outside of a research setting, so that more people could benefit from it. Specifically, can the ADAPT program work well in new places? Will patients and their families find it helpful? Most importantly, can it help improve the lives of people with heart failure in these new settings? To answer these questions, the study team will work with healthcare providers to 1) ask how to adjust the ADAPT program to work well in various settings (e.g. primary care, heart failure clinic) and 2) use this information to create simple materials and trainings to help them easily provide ADAPT. This will prepare for the next phase of this project to test out the new ADAPT program.

Conditions

Congestive Heart Failure (CHF); Congestive Heart Failure Chronic; Congestive Heart Failure; Congestive Heart Failure(CHF)

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Qualitative Themes

  Qualitative themes from interviews and clinic observations and descriptive summary statistics (e.g. means, percentages) of barriers and facilitators from pCAT and PCSI surveys.

  Baseline

Interventions

ADAPT OTHER

Concurrent mixed methods design with rapid qualitative analysis of data from semi-structured interviews, structured clinic observations, and descriptive analysis of surveys. Participants will include clinical providers (e.g. physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, social workers), staff, and leadership at IU Health. As opposed to traditional qualitative methods, rapid qualitative approaches are commonly used in implementation-focused research to guide real-time implementation processes.13 Findings will identify potential clinical partnership site(s) and inform selection and tailoring of strategies to implement ADAPT in a partner clinical site in the next stage of this project.

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Outpatient clinician or staff member with at least 6 months of experience caring for patients with HF

You may qualify if:

• Outpatient clinician or staff member (e.g. physician, physician assistant, nurse practitioner, registered nurse, social worker, psychologist, medical assistant) or healthcare leadership personnel (e.g. Chief Nursing Officer, Clinic Medical Director etc.)
• at least 6 months of experience caring for patients with HF
• years or older

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Indiana University: lead

Study Sites (1)

IUHealth

Indianapolis, Indiana, 47408, United States

RECRUITING

Related Publications (22)

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MeSH Terms

Conditions

Heart Failure

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Heart Diseases; Cardiovascular Diseases

Study Officials

• Lyndsay DeGroot, PhD, RN

  Indiana University School of Medicine

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Central Study Contacts

Lyndsay DeGroot, PhD, RN

CONTACT

317-278-7743; lydegroo@iu.edu

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: COHORT
• Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Assistant Professor Nursing

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: January 13, 2026
• First Posted: January 21, 2026
• Study Start: October 20, 2025
• Primary Completion (Estimated): March 1, 2028
• Study Completion (Estimated): September 1, 2028
• Last Updated: March 27, 2026

Record last verified: 2026-03

Locations

US (1)