Education and Supportive Partners Improving Self-Care (ENSPIRE)

HF patient and family receive structured patient and family education sessions plus intervention to improve family communication one month after enrollment.Patient and family member received one individual dyadic education/counseling session after baseline data collection, and two group sessions (2-3 months after baseline) focused on developing family approaches to HF self management.Telephone counseling for the dyad and reinforcing mailed newsletters at 5-6 months after baseline.

HF Patient and one family member receive structured education sessions one month after enrollment.Two sessions, one indivdual with patient-family member dyad after baseline, and one in a group setting between 2-3 months after baseline. The group session was 2 hours in duration. Telephone counseling for the dyad ast 5-6 months, mailed newsletters at Mailed newsletters at 5-6 months.

Usual care with provision of printed educational material, provided once at baseline