Coping effectively with heart failure (COPE-HF): design and rationale of a telephone-based coping skills intervention.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Coping Effectively with Heart Failure (COPE-HF) is an ongoing randomized clinical trial funded by the National Institutes of Health to evaluate if a coping skills training (CST) intervention will result in improved health status and quality of life as well as reduced mortality and hospitalizations compared with a heart failure education (HFE) intervention.

Methods and results

Two hundred heart failure (HF) patients recruited from the Duke University Medical Center and the University of North Carolina Hospital system will be randomized to a CST intervention (16 weekly 30-minute telephone counseling sessions including motivational interviewing and individually tailored cognitive behavioral therapy) or to an HFE intervention (16 weekly 30-minute telephone sessions in

SUBMITTER: Sherwood A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3073538 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature