MIGHTEE: Motivational Interviewing and Group Heart Transplant Exercise and Education: A Pilot Study
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 23
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Study feasibility assessed by participants' engagement with exercise physiologist
研究概览
简要总结
The aim of this 16-week group aerobic training program, delivered remotely via video-conferencing, is to assess program feasibility, and determine if program increases physical activity in adolescents after heart transplant.
详细描述
Orthotopic heart transplant (OHT) is the definitive therapy for children with cardiac disease, however, survival after transplant is limited, and quality of life after transplant is less than healthy peers'. The transplanted heart usually works well, pumping blood as well as most healthy hearts. As such, the American Heart Association recommends no specific exercise related restrictions for heart transplant recipients. Although most children have normal cardiac function after OHT, children with transplanted hearts have impaired exercise performance, and do not exercise as much as their peers. This finding is concerning, as impaired exercise tolerance is associated with reduced survival, diminished health related quality of life, and depression and anxiety. These factors negatively impact adherence, and further limit graft survival. Thus, identifying interventions that positively impact physical activity and promote graft longevity, like individualized exercise programs, should be a priority for post-transplant care.
Investigators propose that increasing physical activity in children and adolescents after OHT may be a critical modifiable method for increasing graft longevity and improving quality of life. Investigators will explore this through a pilot program. Participants will wear an activity monitor to record physical activity, parents/caregivers and participants will complete surveys, and participants will engage with psychologists and exercise physiologists.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Na
- 干预模型
- Single Group
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 12 Years 至 18 Years（Child, Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •for Patients
- •Age 12-18 years old
- •More than 12 months removed from their initial heart transplant
- •Agreement to participate in study protocol and willing/able to return for follow-up.
- •Access to computer and/or internet for uploading health data from wearable electronic activity monitor.
- •Access to an electronic device (phone, tablet, or computer) with a camera feature, microphone, and the capacity to use Zoom, the virtual platform which will stream the group exercise session.
- •Clinical EKG with normal sinus rhythm
- •English language proficiency
排除标准
- •for Patients
- •Patients who are restricted from exercise
- •Patients who are pregnant
- •History of pharmaceutically treated rejection within the prior 6 months
- •Physical or behavioral conditions that would prevent them from participating in aerobic exercise (i.e., significant motor disability, illness precluding participation in the exercise regimen as described).
- •Inability to complete a standard maximal exercise stress test (as defined by those who did not achieve an respiratory exchange ratio (RER)>1.1 and who gave submaximal effort according to exercise physiologist performing EST)
- •EKG or ambulatory rhythm monitor performed within the last 12 months which shows 2nd or 3rd degree atrioventricular (AV) block
- •Patients with a medication change after their baseline EST expected to affect their heart rate response to exercise (i.e. initiation/discontinuation of a beta-blocker, beta-agonist during exercise, or ivabradine)
- •Pacemaker
- •Inclusion Criteria for Parents
- •Parent of a patient that fits all inclusionary/exclusionary eligibility criteria
- •English language proficiency at least at a 5th grade level or for limited English proficient (LEP) parents, preferred language proficiency of at least a 5th grade level
- •Exclusion Criteria for Parents
- •Unwilling to complete questionnaires
研究组 & 干预措施
Virtual group aerobic training program
16-week, virtual group aerobic training program led by exercise physiologist. Duration: 24 weeks. Four weeks recording of baseline activity through activity monitor; 16-week virtual group aerobic training program, 3 times per week for 30 minutes; and four weeks of follow-up.
干预措施: Group Exercise Program (Other)
结局指标
主要结局
Study feasibility assessed by participants' engagement with exercise physiologist
时间窗: 24 weeks
Participants' attendance at biweekly meetings with exercise physiologist
Study feasibility assessed by participation in training sessions
时间窗: 16 weeks
Attendance at assigned training sessions
Study feasibility evaluated by participants' engagement on the activity monitor application
时间窗: 24 weeks
Days of logged activity on the MyHeart application
次要结局
- Participants' overall program satisfaction(24 weeks)
- Health Related Quality of life(24 weeks)
- Psychological well-being(24 weeks)
- Physical activity of participants(24 weeks)
- Perceived exercise barriers or exercise barriers(24 weeks)