Heart failure patients' medication knowledge

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  The development and testing of a tool to investigate chronic heart failure patients’ knowledge of their medication.

• IRAS ID

  285437

• Contact name

  Paul Rutter

• Contact email

  paul.rutter@port.ac.uk

• Sponsor organisation

  University of Portsmouth

• Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier

  NHE-11CA03-0013, University of Portsmouth insurance reference number

• Duration of Study in the UK

  2 years, 6 months, 0 days

• Research summary

  Heart failure is a condition which means that the heart does not pump as well at the body requires it to. People who have heart failure are often prescribed many medicines to help the function of their heart. The research will investigate what people know about the purpose of the medicines (i.e how do they help the heart) and what are the overall benefits of taking them?
  To assess patient medication knowledge a tool is required to be devised and validated. My research has shown that a tool does not currently exist that has been designed to specifically assess heart failure medication knowledge. Once the tool has been devised it will be given to heart failure patients to complete to allow the testing of the tool as part of the validation process. Patients with long term (chronic) heart failure will be included in the research. Patients will be recruited from a GP practice in Brighton and Hove, and identified from the GP heart failure register. The results of the completed tool will determine patient medication knowledge. The project is self-funded

• REC name

  North West - Greater Manchester Central Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  22/NW/0183

• Date of REC Opinion

  7 Jul 2022

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion