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Increasing Exercise Adherence After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention With the Fitbit Charge HR Device

Not Applicable
Conditions
Acute Coronary Syndrome
Interventions
Device: Fitbit Charge HR
Registration Number
NCT02788929
Lead Sponsor
North Texas Veterans Healthcare System
Brief Summary

Design: Single center, prospective, randomized study that will compare activity levels in patients who complete cardiac rehabilitation after clinically indicated percutaneous coronary intervention with and without use of the wrist-worn Fitbit Charge HR device and mobile platform application.

Primary Endpoint: The average number of steps taken per day will serve as the main marker of daily physical activity.

Control: Patients who do not receive the device (Fitbit Charge HR).

Secondary Endpoints: (1) change in daily energy expenditure (2) change in number of activity and sedentary bouts (3) change in sleep efficiency (4) change in weekly time of moderate/vigorous physical activity (5) change in quality of life (6) change in indicators of depression (7) change in medication adherence(8) change in HDL and LDL cholesterol (9) change in BMI and waist circumference (10) change in resting heart rate and blood pressure (11) change in exercise stress test performance (timeframe for all: baseline - 12 weeks)

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
UNKNOWN
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
40
Inclusion Criteria
  • Age 18 years or greater
  • Willing and able to give informed consent
  • Successful, clinically-indicated PCI with no plan for staged procedure
  • Clinically stable and able to exercise
  • Access to smartphone (Apple or Android platform)
  • Completed 10 weeks of CR and is expected to graduate program.
Exclusion Criteria
  • Plan for PCI or other major surgical procedure, which would limit exercise capability, within the 14 weeks following study enrollment.
  • Home oxygen requirement
  • Amputation, peripheral arterial disease, other musculoskeletal or neurological disease affecting mobility
  • End-stage renal disease
  • Ongoing Unstable angina or CCS IV angina
  • NYHA IV heart failure
  • Terminal illness
  • Dementia
  • Fall risk (inability to hold semi-tandem stance for 10 seconds)
  • Pregnant women and prisoners
  • Any other criteria that in the opinion of the investigator would preclude patient participation in the study and/or impact exercise capability.

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Fitbit Charge HRFitbit Charge HRUse of the Fitbit Charge HR, a simple, user-friendly, wrist-worn, commercially available device which provides feedback on exercise goal adherence, in combination with the Fitbit mobile platform application. All patients will wear the Actigraph wGT3X-BT, from which data is extracted. Actigraph does not provide patient any feedback.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Relative change in average number of steps taken per dayBaseline and 12 weeks after completion of cardiac rehabilitation
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Relative change in average daily energy expenditure measured in % change in the average number of calories (kcal) expended per dayBaseline and 12 weeks after completion of cardiac rehabilitation

Average daily energy expenditure will be measured in kcal/day by the Actigraph wGT3X-BT device.

Relative change in average number of daily activity bouts measured in % change in the average number of activity bouts per dayBaseline and 12 weeks after completion of cardiac rehabilitation

Activity bouts will be measured as periods of continuous activity recorded by the Actigraph wGT3X-BT device.

Relative change in average number of daily sedentary bouts measured in % change in the average number of sedentary bouts per dayBaseline and 12 weeks after completion of cardiac rehabilitation

Sedentary bouts will be measured as periods of prolonged inactivity recorded by the Actigraph wGT3X-BT device. Non-wear time periods are excluded from this analysis.

Relative change in average daily sleep efficiency measured in % change in average sleep efficiency. Sleep efficiency will also be measured in %.Baseline and 12 weeks after completion of cardiac rehabilitation

Sleep efficiency will be measured in % using data from the Actigraph wGT3X-BT device.

Relative change in quality of life, measured in % change in SF-36 health survey questionnaire scoreBaseline and 12 weeks after completion of cardiac rehabilitation

change in quality of life (as assessed by the Short Form Health (SF36) questionnaire).

Relative change in BMIBaseline and 12 weeks after completion of cardiac rehabilitation
Relative change in average weekly moderate/vigorous physical activity, measured in % change in minutes spent in moderate/vigorous physical activity per weekBaseline and 12 weeks after completion of cardiac rehabilitation

change in weekly time of moderate/vigorous physical activity (MVPA, defined as activity intensity of ≥3.0 metabolic equivalents \[MET\] or ≥100 steps/min) (minutes).

Relative change in HDL and LDL cholesterolBaseline and 12 weeks after completion of cardiac rehabilitation
Relative change in waist circumferenceBaseline and 12 weeks after completion of cardiac rehabilitation
Relative change in indicators of depression, measured in % change in PHQ9 questionnaire scoreBaseline and 12 weeks after completion of cardiac rehabilitation

change in indicators of depression (as assessed by the Patient Health (PHQ9) questionnaire).

Relative change in medication adherence, measured in % change in MMAS questionnaire scoreBaseline and 12 weeks after completion of cardiac rehabilitation

change in medication adherence (as assessed by the Morisky Medication Adherence Scale (MMAS-8).

Relative change in resting heart rateBaseline and 12 weeks after completion of cardiac rehabilitation
Relative change in exercise stress test performanceBaseline and 12 weeks after completion of cardiac rehabilitation
Relative change in blood pressure (BP)Baseline and 12 weeks after completion of cardiac rehabilitation
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