Health coaching to support heart failure and frailty

This trial is testing whether a personalized health coaching program—delivered by nurses through phone or video calls—can help people with heart failure and frailty improve their quality of life and avoid future hospitalizations. Heart failure is a serious condition where the heart doesn't pump blood as well as it should, and frailty is a state of weakness that makes people more vulnerable to health problems. The study will compare people who receive the coaching program to those who receive standard care alone.

Heart failure is becoming much more common in Korea and worldwide, and more people are being hospitalized or dying from it despite current treatments. Many heart failure patients also experience frailty, which increases their risk of complications and poor outcomes. Doctors believe that a personalized, whole-person approach to care—addressing not just physical health but also emotional, mental, and social needs—could help prevent hospitalizations and improve people's lives, but this needs to be tested.