Evaluation of Exercise Tolerance and Cardiac Output in Patients With Heart Failure After Intervention of Rehabilitation Program

Taichung Veterans General Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Heart Failure With or Without CRT-P/D

Treatments: Behavioral: Home-based cardiac rehabilitation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02928783

CG13107

Details and patient eligibility

About

Home-based rehabilitation programs have not been widely few been studied and the training effects are not unclear. This study evaluates the beneficial effects of home-based cardiac rehabilitation on quality of medical care in patients with chronic heart failure.

Full description

cardiopulmonary rehabilitation programs are safe and effective for improving functional capacity, quality of life, as well as for reducing in the re-admission rate and all-cause mortality of patients with heart failure.clinical trials that have established the benefits of hospital-based cardiac rehabilitation for patients with chronic heart failure. Home-based cardiac rehabilitation could be more accessible and acceptable compared with hospital-based cardiac rehabilitation.

Enrollment: 37 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Heart failure patients with NYHA I, II, III, and LVEF<50%.

Exclusion criteria

• Heart failure patients with NYHA I, II, III, and LVEF<50%. But excluded pregnancy, disability.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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37 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

In interventional group, we arranged individualized rehabilitation programs including home-based cardiac rehabilitation, diet education and management of daily activity for 3 months.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Home-based cardiac rehabilitation

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

We didn't arrange individualized rehabilitation programs including home-based cardiac rehabilitation, diet education and management of daily activity for 3 months.