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Cardiopulmonary Training in the Victims With Multiple Morbidities by Application of Novel Heart Rate Sensing Clothes

Not Applicable
Recruiting
Conditions
Multiple Morbidities
Heart; Complications
Degeneration Muscle
Interventions
Device: E-clothes
Behavioral: Healthy consultation
Registration Number
NCT04022590
Lead Sponsor
Shang-Lin Chiang
Brief Summary

Investigators assume that the wearable clothes can be applied to home-based health care and integrated into a case management model through telehealthcare. While prior to complete the case management, the feasibility should be tested and evaluate its reliability and validity of the physical information collected from the clothes. Therefore, investigators try to conduct a feasibility study to evaluate the reliability and validity of the exercise heart rate sensing e-clothes and after that, investigators will incorporate this wearable clothes to home-based exercise training as one of the major components in our case management model.

Detailed Description

Easy-to-use and service touch points allow patients/ users to realize the value and status of their physiological functions/ parameters based on their evidence is important. According to the U.S. survey, 90% of people can change their lifestyle behaviors, improve their personal health awareness, achieve holistic health care and improve their quality of life due to "Quantify Self". Therefore, a broader health care system, health consumption services or ecological system has been building to integrate health care resources, extend health care services from hospital to communities and individual' homes. When people consume in their daily life, immediate public health guidance or professional intervention can be offered at the same time, not only can effectively maintain individuals' health, early detection of possible physiological signs/ parameters, can also delay the progression of the disease and reduce the burden of first-line health care workers. Therefore, it is the era of smart healthcare that provides a health service platform with APPs(Applications) to provide personalized integrated medical services. However, in order to monitor or evaluate the effect of treatment (i.e., exercise training) still needs to be provided through the actual feedback of individual physiological data.

Clothes with smart function which is able to connect with social media and APPs has been promoting and marketing as smart sports or lifestyle-monitor goods, such as exercise-related physical parameters and sleep quality quantifying. Sleep physiology information collected through the clothes including degree and quality of sleep can be recorded and transmitted to the remote health system via APP and cloud service platform. On this cloud platform, health information can exchange with clinician's physicians, offering advises for users to whether to go to the hospital for further examination.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
60
Inclusion Criteria
  • more than two chronic disease.(multiple morbidity)
  • able to speak and understand Mandarin
  • able to walk without assistance
  • able to use smart phones and understand how to use the e-clothes and related app
  • agreed to be randomized to one of the two groups
Exclusion Criteria
  • a history of cancer
  • confirmed psychiatric disease
  • inability to participate due to comorbid neurological and musculoskeletal conditions
  • a history of arrhythmia

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
E-clothesHealthy consultationThe participants with E-clothes do aerobic training at home
Home exerciseHealthy consultationThe participants with healthy consultation do aerobic training at home.
E-clothesE-clothesThe participants with E-clothes do aerobic training at home
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Aerobic capacity (VO2 max in ml/kg/min )30 minutes

Maximal VO2 during testing, also means aerobic capacity

Working load in watt30 minutes

Maximal Working load during testing

O2 pulse in ml/beat,30 minutes

It means the heart pumps O2 volume by each heart beat, and also means left ventricle function.

Rest/Max Heart rate in beat/min30 minutes

resting and maximal heart rate during exercise testing,

systolic and diastolic blood pressure in mm Hg,30 minutes

The resting and maximal blood pressure during exercise testing

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Physical activity (scores)10 minutes

The participants' weekly physical activity will be assessed by a research nurse using the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ)-short form, Chinese version, which has well-established reliability and validity (Liou, Jwo, Yao, Chiang, \& Huang, 2008). This 7-item instrument measures time (minute) of physical activity including housework, transportation, leisure activity, and moderate-to-vigorous-intensity physical activity for the past 7 days.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Tri-service General Hospital

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Taipei, Taiwan

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