Online psychological support group
Outro
st Session: Presentation of the participants and the objectives of the group, which are the management of depression and the promotion of self-care. Discussion on heart failure and its clinical management. Arrangements will be made with these patients about confidentiality between the participants, as it is a group intervention where each participant can expose their personal issues.
nd Session: Discussion on depression and its clinical management. From the 3rd to the 11th Session: They will aim to offer support for the emotional demands of the participants, related to the daily and future challenges inherent in the care provided with HF, seeking to promote self-care. As it is a homogeneous group, it is expected to enable enriching exchanges within the group about changes in habits or adaptations to HF, since psychological support groups have this function.
12th Session: Closing and evaluation of participants. Scheduling for reassessment of instruments
Standard multidisciplinary care
Outro
The control group will undergo 1 consultation with the multidisciplinary team, offered as standard treatment at the Heart Failure outpatient clinic of the Institute of Cardiology, with the areas: medicine, nutritionist and psychology. Monitoring with a multidisciplinary team is the gold standard for monitoring patients with HF and its multiple comorbidities. These patients are followed up on average every 3 months in this outpatient clinic.