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Dance4Healing: Explore the Benefits of Tele-Dance in Individuals with an Implantable Cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD)

Not Applicable
Withdrawn
Conditions
ICD
Anxiety
Patient Engagement
Interventions
Behavioral: Dance4Healing Telehealth Live Zoom Sessions
Behavioral: Dance Buddy
Registration Number
NCT04678128
Lead Sponsor
Sanjiv Narayan, MD, PhD
Brief Summary

This study is to determine if it is feasible to using a Telehealth Dance Platform with patients that have an implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator, and will compare the activity engagement, anxiety, and Quality of Life

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
WITHDRAWN
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
Not specified
Inclusion Criteria
  1. Patients that have had an ICD implanted for at least 1 month
  2. Patients have access to web-based on-line programs
  3. Patient can provide cardiac clearance for exercise from their treating physician OR they have written stress test results from within the last 6 months indicating no ischemia.
  4. Patient is 18 years old or greater.
Exclusion Criteria
  1. Patient is non-English speaking.
  2. Patient is assessed as having NYHA Class IV heart failure.
  3. Patient had ventricular tachycardia (VT), ventricular fibrillation (VF) or has received "tachy" therapy from their ICD within last 4 weeks.
  4. Patient has had a change in medical arrhythmia management or ablation procedure within the last 4 weeks.
  5. Any medical issues that compromise walking or dancing, including cardiac, neurological or orthopedic .

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Dance4Healing Buddy GroupDance BuddyParticipants will monitor their heart rate for 8 weeks (pre-intervention period), then engage in weekly live zoom dance sessions on digital Dance4Healing platform for 8 consecutive weeks (intervention period), then may elect to continue with monitoring for an additional 12 weeks (3-month post-intervention period for long-term results). During the intervention period, this group will have a dance buddy.
Dance4Healing Buddy GroupDance4Healing Telehealth Live Zoom SessionsParticipants will monitor their heart rate for 8 weeks (pre-intervention period), then engage in weekly live zoom dance sessions on digital Dance4Healing platform for 8 consecutive weeks (intervention period), then may elect to continue with monitoring for an additional 12 weeks (3-month post-intervention period for long-term results). During the intervention period, this group will have a dance buddy.
Dance4Healing control groupDance4Healing Telehealth Live Zoom SessionsParticipants will monitor their heart rate for 8 weeks (pre-intervention period), then engage in weekly live zoom dance sessions on digital Dance4Healing platform for 8 consecutive weeks (intervention period), then may elect to continue with monitoring for an additional 12 weeks (3-month post-intervention period for long-term results). During the intervention period, this group will not have a dance buddy.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Change in calculated score from Patient Activation as a measure of Patient Activity Engagement over timeBaseline, Week 8(pre-intervention), Week 16 (post-intervention), Week 28 (long term)

Scores range from 0-100, higher scores represent higher engagement self reported survey

Activity in hours/day from ICD interrogation as a measure of activity engagement over time36 weeks
Total Amount of Time spent accessing the dance platform in minutes as a measure of Activity Engagement during the study interventionTotal time in minutes over the 8 week intervention period

Total number of minutes that the participant accesses the Dance4Healing platform each week

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Change in Anxiety Score over timeBaseline, Week 8(pre-intervention), Week 16 (post-intervention), Week 28 (long term)

Anxiety will be a calculated score from a 10 question self-reported questionnaire (Florida Shock Anxiety Scale) with a scoring range from 0-50, with higher scores indicating more anxiety.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Stanford Arrhythmia Clinic

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Stanford, California, United States

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