Activity Level and Barriers to Participate of Cardiac Rehabilitation in Advanced Heart Failure Patients

Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cardiac Rehabilitation; Physical Exercise; Heart Failure，Congestive

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03385837

2249-14

Details and patient eligibility

About

A prospective longitudinal and observational clinical study will be conducted with hospitalized heart failure patients.The main purpose is to know the level of physical activity of these patients after their discharge in relation to the orientation received during their hospitalization and identify the barriers perceived by these patients to participate in a cardiac rehabilitation program. The outcomes are available by telephone calls in 30 and 90 days after discharge.

Full description

Heart failure is a progression epidemic problem, parallel to population aging. The costs of this disease are estimates in 38 billion of dollars per year, many of those have a relationship to high number of hospitalizations and decompensated heart failure. Non-adherence to drug treatment and non-pharmacological measures as cardiac rehabilitation are the major causes of high number of mortality and hospitalizations by heart failure. Our objectives will be to identify in decompensated heart failure inpatients the level of physical activity that they done before hospitalization, the barriers for the non-use of cardiac rehabilitation and their disposition to changes of lifestyle. Correlation between level of physical activity and readmission in 30 and 90 days after hospital discharge will be done. To understand the profile of these patients and difficulties for to do physical exercise could help to make future actions with focus in to obtain high adherence to changes in lifestyle.

Enrollment: 70 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria Patients in the heart failure protocol of the cardiology program with medical release in the next 72 hours

Exclusion criteria

• Inpatients for more than 30 days
• Younger than 18 years old
• Patients not recommended to do exercises (patients with osteoarticular alterations that doesn't allow the performance of physical exercise)
• Patients with cognitive impairment (Mini Mental <24), visual or psychiatric impairment which restrain the comprehension of the questionnaires

Trial design

70 participants in 1 patient group

Heart Failure Patients

Description:

Cardiac Rehabilitation in Advanced Heart Failure Patients