Participants involvement in decision making for aortic stenosis
Research type
Research Study
Full title
To explore patients understanding of their heart condition and symptoms: to enable changes to support future decision making for treatment of symptomatic severe stenosis with Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implant (TAVI) or Conservative Management.
IRAS ID
261260
Contact name
F Rawlinson
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Cardiff University
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 6 months, 1 days
Research summary
To explore the patients symptoms, risk behaviours and coping strategies underlining their understanding of symptomatic severe aortic stenosis. It is relevant to the patients and public as gaining the patients personal perspective will inform practice amongst the medical and nursing structural heart valve disease team. This is important as the small amount of evidence available demonstrates this group of patients experience hope and fear during this uncertain period. These feelings are compounded by a potential expectant intervention such as Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implant (TAVI) and dealt with poorly in cases where no treatment can be offered. If no treatment is offered, the patients are deemed palliative. Gaining personal knowledge from the patients will reward with a greater breath of ideas and an opportunity to involve more people within the service and provide an opportunity to refocus away from the medical model of care. Eligible patients are those referred to a cardiologist at the tertiary cardiac unit to consider treatment of symptomatic severe aortic stenosis. The study will be undertaken on one site. The site is a tertiary centre for South West UK. Patients will not be expected to attend the hospital as they study will use telephone interviewing. The study will run until August 2019. The participants will receive a patient information sheet, an opportunity to consent to a telephone call. The initial call will arrange a 15-20 minute phone appointment. The patient information team will undertake the telephone call to ensure the patients feel this intervention is in additional and none comprising to current referral or treatment.
REC name
HSC REC B
REC reference
19/NI/0044
Date of REC Opinion
26 Feb 2019
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion