Education tailored to your health literacy to help follow heart-care instructions after a heart attack or heart failure

Is this trial a fit for you?

A plain-English reading of the study's rules. Only the study team can confirm whether you qualify.

What this trial studies

This randomized interventional trial enrolls adults hospitalized for an acute myocardial infarction or acute decompensated heart failure who have limited health literacy. Participants are randomized to receive usual discharge care or an educational toolkit co-designed with patients and health professionals that is adapted to low health literacy. The toolkit focuses on clear written materials and practical instructions to improve medication taking and follow-up behaviors. The study tracks adherence to medical recommendations and subsequent healthcare use after discharge.

Why it matters

Who can join: the full rules

Inclusion Criteria:

* Age greater than or equal to 18 years
* Hospitalization for at least a 2nd acute attack (systolic or diastolic)
* Patient living at home before hospitalization for decompensation
* Affiliated with a health insurance plan

Exclusion Criteria:

* Short-term vital prognosis
* Bipolar disorders, active psychoses
* Severe dementia
* Psychiatric or cognitive comorbidities making inclusion impossible, at the discretion of the investigator.
* Pregnant, parturient or breastfeeding women
* Persons deprived of liberty by a judicial or administrative decision
* Persons admitted to a health or social establishment for purposes other than research
* Adults subject to a legal protection measure (guardianship, curatorship)
* Subject participating in another interventional research including an exclusion period still ongoing at inclusion
* Score S-TOFHLA (\>22)
* Withdrawal of consent

Where it's running

• Hôpital Louis Pradel
  Bron, France Recruiting
• Public Health Department
  Lyon, France Recruiting
• Hôpital Lyon Sud
  Pierre-Bénite, France Recruiting
• SSR Val Rosay
  Saint-Didier-au-Mont-d'Or, France Recruiting

Study contacts

• Principal investigator: Julie HAESEBAERT, MD — Hospices Civils de Lyon
• Study coordinator: Julie HAESEBAERT, MD
• Email: julie.haesebaert@chu-lyon.fr
• Phone: 04 72 68 49 05

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How to take part

1. Review the eligibility criteria above with your treating physician.
2. Check the official listing on ClinicalTrials.gov for the latest contact details and recruitment status.
3. Contact the study coordinator or principal investigator to ask for pre-screening. Pre-screening is free and never obligates you to enroll.