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Palliative Care for People With HF

Implementing Community Palliative Care for People With Heart Failure

Who can join

Ages 18 and older · All sexes

Inclusion Criteria:

* 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
* 18 years or older

Exclusion Criteria:

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About the study

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.

What is being tested

• ADAPT (other)

Sponsor: Indiana University · Participants: 20 · Started: Oct 29, 2025

Contact the study team

• Lyndsay DeGroot, PhD, RN · Phone: 317-278-7743

Official record on ClinicalTrials.gov — NCT07356843

Locations in the U.S.

Conditions

• Heart Failure

From ClinicalTrials.gov, data retrieved Oct 2, 2026. Each study sets its own eligibility; the study team decides who can join.