HEART Camp Connect -Promoting Exercise in Adults With Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction
HEART (Heart Failure Exercise and Resistance Training) Camp Connect: Promoting Adherence to Exercise in Adults With Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction
University of Nebraska
300 participants
Nov 20, 2023
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
The goal of this study is to learn more about patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) and exercise. Investigators want to see if meeting with a coach in person or by video conference will help these patients exercise, feel better, and change markers in their blood. Participants will be randomly placed in one of three groups for 18 months. All groups will have access to a fitness center and be given a watch and heart rate monitor to wear during exercise. The usual care group (control group) will have access to exercise videos via the medical fitness center and will not meet with a coach. The HEART Camp group will exercise and meet with their coach in-person at the medical fitness center. The HEART Camp Connect group will have access to exercise videos via the medical fitness center and will meet with their coach via videoconferencing. All participants will take part in an exercise test and study training prior to being randomized. At four data collection time points, participants will wear an activity monitor for 7 days each, have their blood drawn, and answer questions related to heart failure and exercise. Participants will also wear a heart rate monitor when they exercise and fill out a daily exercise diary.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria4
- Diagnosis of heart failure with an ejection fraction greater than or equal to 50
- Echocardiogram in prior 24 months
- Stable pharmacologic therapy in the past 30 days
- Any of the following evidence to confirm HFpEF - Score\< 6 on Heavy Hypertensive Atrial Fibrillation, Pulmonary Hypertension, Elder, Filling Pressure algorithm, invasive hemodynamic evidence of HFpEF(i.e., elevated pulmonary wedge pressure), or a confirmed clinical diagnosis of HFpEF
Exclusion Criteria9
- Life-limiting illness precluding study completion
- Clinical evidence of decompensated heart failure
- Unstable angina or marked shortness of breath on exertion at less than 2 metabolic equivalents
- Myocardial infarction, coronary artery bypass graft, or biventricular pacemaker in prior 6 weeks
- Orthopedic or neuromuscular disorders preventing aerobic exercise
- Cardiopulmonary exercise test results that preclude safe exercise
- Unwilling/unable to complete pre-randomization procedures
- Pregnancy
- Implantable cardioverter defibrillator
Interventions
Participants will meet with an in-person coach at the medical fitness center: Months 1-3 weekly for 30 minutes; Months 4-12 every other week for 15 minutes (on alternate weeks, participants will attend a 1-hour group-based exercise training and coaching).
Participants will meet with a virtual coach from the medical fitness center via videoconferencing: Months 1-3 weekly for 30 minutes; Months 4-12 every other week for 15 minutes (on alternate weeks, participants will attend a virtual 1-hour group-based exercise training and coaching session via videoconferencing).
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NCT05784753