Getting Into Light Exercise for Patients With Heart Failure
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Conditions studied: Heart Failure
In brief
Despite scientific advances in treatment, patients with heart failure experience daily distressing symptoms and mortality rates are high. Although standard exercise improves numerous physical and psychological symptoms in heart failure patients, exercise participation rates are very low because of exercise barriers. Our research is aimed at understanding whether home-based gentle types of exercise such as yoga, delivered via video-conference, are beneficial in patients with heart failure. Challenging conventional strategies and breaking down barriers to care by testing new types of exercise delivered via tele-health (ipads) are urgently needed to improve the distressing symptoms that heart failure patients face daily.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT04248088
- Run by
- University of Virginia
- People needed
- 100
- Starts
- 2019-12-01
- Expected to finish
- 2021-12-31
- Last updated by the study team
- 2020-01-30
Who can join
Age: 19 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction or Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction as seen by problem list in the EMR, is a patient in the heart failure clinic, or general cardiology clinic.
- ability to read, write and understand English;
- agree to participate and give informed consent;
- 19 years of age and older;
- telephone access;
- and NYHA class I-III with no changes in medications in 30 days (i.e. medical therapy is optimized).
You may not qualify if…
- are pregnant and/or breast feeding (self-reported)
- have a history of non-adherence with medications (as described by their provider or medical record);
- have had a hospitalization within the last 3 months for HF;
- have unstable angina; CABG, MI or biventricular pacemaker less than 6 weeks prior;
- have orthopedic impediments to stretching exercise; have severe COPD with a forced expiratory volume in one second less than 1 liter as measured by spirometry;
- have severe stenotic valvular disease;
- have a history of resuscitated sudden cardiac death without subsequent placement of an implantable cardioverter defibrillator;
- exercise more than 3 times weekly; currently engage in yoga at least 1 time per week;
- have cognitive impairment (as measured by the Mini-Cog)
- are living in a nursing home
- history of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PASP>60mmHg)
- other serious life-limiting co-morbidity, e.g. end stage cancer
- post-heart transplant (s/p OHT) or Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD)
- New York Heart Association Functional Class IV
Where it is running
- University of Virginia — Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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