Web Based Cardiac Rehabilitation Support in Coronary Artery Patients

Semiha ALKAN KAYHAN

Status: Completed

Conditions: Coronary Artery Disease; Medication Adherence; Healthy Lifestyle; Cardiac Rehabilitation; Quality of Life

Treatments: Other: cardiac rehabilitation support program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05489913

24237859-534

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study was carried out as a randomized controlled experimental study to evaluate the effect of web-based cardiac rehabilitation support on the healthy lifestyle behaviors, medication adherence and quality of life in coronary heart patients.

Full description

Hypothesis 1:

H0: Web-based cardiac rehabilitation support has no effect on increasing the healthy lifestyle behaviors of patients with coronary artery disease.

H1: Web-based cardiac rehabilitation support has an effect on increasing the healthy lifestyle behaviors of patients with coronary artery disease.

Hypothesis 2:

H0: Web-based cardiac rehabilitation support in patients with coronary artery disease has no effect on increasing the compliance of patients to drug therapy.

H1: Web-based cardiac rehabilitation support in patients with coronary artery disease has an effect on increasing the compliance of patients to drug therapy.

Hypothesis 3:

H0: Web-based cardiac rehabilitation support has no effect on improving the quality of life of patients with coronary artery disease.

H1: Web-based cardiac rehabilitation support has an effect on improving the quality of life of patients with coronary artery disease.

Enrollment: 70 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with a diagnosis of Coronary artery disease, adult patients, those for whom no surgical operation was planned, those who were clinically stable, those who were literate, those who could communicate verbally, use the Internet, those who had a computer, tablet or smartphone, and those who agreed to participate in the study.

Exclusion criteria

• Those who have a disease that is not suitable for the CR program, those who did not agree to participate in the study, those who did not log in after registering on the website, did not read the trainings and could not communicate with the patient during the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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70 participants in 2 patient groups

Web based Cardiac Rehabilitation program and follow-up telephone

Experimental group

Description:

The website was created under the name of "Cardiac Rehabilitation Support Program". The language of the website is Turkish. Designed for computer, tablet and mobile phone use. Patients must be registered to access the website. After creating a six-digit password during registration, they log in to the website with their e-mail address and this password. The password is determined specifically for the patient. There is a welcome text on the home page of the website. The main headings in the menu section; trainings, disease management questions, questionnaires, ask questions to the researcher.

Treatment:

Other: cardiac rehabilitation support program

Standard care

No Intervention group

Description:

patients received their training before discharge from the hospital and no intervention was made for 12 weeks.