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Heart Failure / Caregiver Burden / Cognitive Impairment · Interventional Study
ClinicalTrials.gov · August 12, 2026
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This is a planned RCT of ViCCY, a behavioral intervention delivered over 6 months to improve self-care and reduce burden in informal caregivers of homecare patients with heart failure and cognitive impairment. No results have been posted; the trial is recruiting and design details are registered but outcome data are not yet available.
Interventional, Randomized, Parallel, Double masking, Health Services Research purpose. Heart Failure, Cognitive Impairment, Caregiver Burden; age from 18 Years; to 101 Years. Intervention: ViCCY Intervention. Compared with: Usual Care — No Intervention. n = 316. 1 site: United States.
This is a planned RCT of ViCCY, a behavioral intervention delivered over 6 months to improve self-care and reduce burden in informal caregivers of homecare patients with heart failure and cognitive impairment. No results have been posted; the trial is recruiting and design details are registered but outcome data are not yet available.
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This is an ongoing trial registration with no results reported; it describes planned enrollment and design for an RCT of a behavioral intervention in caregivers, but provides no outcome data.
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Registry record from ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT07220798). This is a study registration, not published results. Lead sponsor: Visiting Nurse Service of New York. Recruitment status: RECRUITING. Phase: NA. Study type: INTERVENTIONAL. Enrollment: 316 participants (ESTIMATED). Conditions: Heart Failure, Cognitive Impairment, Caregiver Burden. Interventions: BEHAVIORAL: ViCCY. Primary outcome measures: Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) (Both) , Baseline, 3- and 6- and 12-months. Brief summary: This RCT design will enroll 256 informal caregivers (spouse/partner or child) of HHC patients with HF/CI and 60 patients with HF and mild to moderate CI (60 dyads). After collecting baseline data, we will block randomize the caregivers 1:1 to the ViCCY intervention or comparator group, stratifying randomization by caregiver sex (male/female), relationship (spouse/partner or child), and race (white/other)- factors known to influence caregiving burden, perceived stress, and receptivity to the intervention. We will encourage caregivers to use their own devices but provide tablet devices with wireless network access if needed. The intervention group will receive 10 sessions of ViCCY over 6 months.
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