More Intensive Cardiac Rehabilitation Programs in Less Time

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Acute Coronary Syndrome
• Interventions: Other: Intensive cardiac rehabilitation program in less time

• Registration Number: NCT02619422
• Lead Sponsor: Almudena Castro Conde

Brief Summary

To determine if an intensive cardiac rehabilitation program with periodic reinforcements improve the compliance/adherence to secondary preventive measures (physical exercise, mediterranean diet, tobacco abstinence, pharmacological treatment) after an acute coronary syndrome with or without ST segment elevation versus an standard cardiac rehabilitation program

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2015-10
• Study First Submitted: 2015-10-04
• Study First Submitted QC: 2015-11-30
• Study First Posted: 2015-12-02
• Primary Completion: 2018-02
• Study Completion: 2018-02-28
• Status Verified: 2018-06
• Last Update Submitted: 2018-06-05
• Last Update Posted: 2018-06-06

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 509

Inclusion Criteria

• Signed informed consent
• Equal or older 18 years old
• Acute coronary syndrome with or without ST elevation within last two months
• Being able to do physical exercise
• Being able to understand the educative sessions
• Being able to understand patient information in the consent form

Exclusion Criteria

• Hemodynamic instability
• Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) < or = 35%
• Heart failure class III -IV (New York Heart Association (NYHA) Functional Classification)
• Refractory angina
• Any pathology for which physical exercise is not indicated

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Intensivo	Intensive cardiac rehabilitation program in less time	intensive cardiac rehabilitation program in less time

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number of participants reporting compliance with prescribed treatments	baseline-12 months	Patient-reported answers form the investigator
Adherence to physical exercise	baseline-12 months	Assessed in Metabolic Equivalents of Task (METS) from baseline by ergometry
Adherence to Mediterranean diet	baseline-12 months	Assessed by Mediterranean diet adherence questionnaire (Modified Trichopoulou A,)
Tabacco abstinence	baseline-12 months	Assessed by cooximetry (less dan 10 ppm)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Hospital Universitario La Paz; 🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain