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Feasibility of Home-based Cardiac Rehabilitation in Patients With Chronic Heart Failure (Pilot-CRHF)

U

University of Leipzig

Status

Active, not recruiting

Conditions

Heart Failure

Treatments

Behavioral: Home-based cardiac rehabilitation

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT06269263
339/23-ek

Details and patient eligibility

About

The proposed study will determine the willingness of patients for participation. Furthermore, the assessment of tests to identify eligible patients and the type of exercise intervention that goes along with a high patient compliance is crucial. Also, more information about possible factors preventing patients from participating is required. Therefore, if the patient is willing to participate, the investigators will assess patients' medical history, medication and QoL as well as parameters of routine diagnostics (i.e. echocardiography, laboratory testing, MRI). Following, while the in-patient stay due to cardiac decompensation, the investigators will conduct several assessment-tests to determine the physical status, the exercise capacity and the cognitive function. Moreover, physiotherapists will instruct the patients in the exercise program. After discharge from the hospital, physiotherapist will visit the patient at home to instruct them again in the exercises. Then, the patients will conduct the program on their own for a period of 12 weeks. During the exercise period, a doctoral student will visit the patients at home every 3 weeks to check whether they are doing the exercises correctly and to determine whether there are any problems with the program. After the exercise period of 12 weeks, the baseline characteristics will be assessed again at the University Hospital Leipzig.

Full description

See above

Enrollment

30 estimated patients

Sex

All

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Chronic heart failure irrespective of the ejection fraction
  • Recent history of acute cardiac decompensation leading to hospitalization

Exclusion criteria

  • Patients not willing to participate
  • Patients with orthopedic diseases limiting their mobility
  • Cognitive diseases that hinder adequate participation in the opinion of the investigator
  • Inpatient rehabilitation.

Trial design

Primary purpose

Supportive Care

Allocation

N/A

Interventional model

Single Group Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

30 participants in 1 patient group

Home-based cardiac rehabilitation
Experimental group
Description:
Home-based cardiac rehabilitation
Treatment:
Behavioral: Home-based cardiac rehabilitation

Trial contacts and locations

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Central trial contact

Annika Reuser, MD; Rolf Wachter, MD

Data sourced from clinicaltrials.gov

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