Mindful Steps: Promoting Physical Activity

Beth Israel Lahey Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Copd; Heart Failure

Treatments: Behavioral: Mindful Steps

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03003780

2016P000368

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a developmental project with two phases. The first phase will adapt an existing web-based intervention to incorporate mind-body exercises to develop a multi-modal intervention to promote physical activity in patients with COPD and HF. The second phase will pilot test this new intervention in a longitudinal study (subjects randomized to intervention or usual care).

Enrollment: 42 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Clinical diagnosis of COPD OR clinical diagnosis of HF syndrome (New York Heart Association Class 1-3)
• Able to participate in an exercise program
• Have an active email account and access to a computer with internet connection

Exclusion criteria

• COPD or HF exacerbation in the previous month
• Inability to ambulate
• Clinical signs of unstable cardiovascular disease
• Hypoxemia during 6MWT
• Inability to collect at least 7 of 14 days of baseline step counts
• Current participation in a cardiac or pulmonary rehabilitation program.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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42 participants in 2 patient groups

Mindful Steps

Experimental group

Description:

Web-based behavioral intervention

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mindful Steps

Usual Care

No Intervention group