Exercise Training in Children With Congenital Heart Defect

National Taiwan University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Congenital Heart Disease

Treatments: Other: Exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00930800

200712010R

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of exercise training on exercise capacity, physical activity (PA), health-related quality of life (HRQoL), and the psychosocial factors affecting PA in sedentary congenital heart defect (CHD) children and healthy sedentary children. The degree of improvement after exercise training were compared between CHD children and healthy sedentary children.

Full description

Exercise groups took 12-week exercise training, twice in hospital and once at home, using a video game so-called Dance Dance Revolution (DDR), while the control group kept their daily routines.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 7 to 16 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Children with congenital heart defect s/p repair > 6 months
• Sedentary lifestyle

Exclusion criteria

• Unstable hemodynamics
• Impaired mental and cognition
• Systemic disease

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 1 patient group

Exercise

Other group

Description:

Dance Dance Revolution (DDR)

Treatment:

Other: Exercise