Web-based Motor Intervention to Increase Health Related Physical Fitness in Children With Congenital Heart Disease
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Congenital Heart Disease
- Sponsor
- Deutsches Herzzentrum Muenchen
- Enrollment
- 70
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Improvement of health related physical fitness
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 5 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
Children with congenital heart diseases (CHD) often show reduced health related physical fitness as well as limitations in gross and fine motor skills/development. Intervention programs in childhood are still rare and often focus just on the improvement of cardiac outcomes or exercise capacity. Web-based interventions, as a useful alternative to training manuals or supervised training, are cost effective and allow a customization of training times. Primary purpose of this study is to improve health related physical fitness in children with congenital heart disease.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Ages 10-18 years old.
- •CHD with moderate to complex severity according to the ACC criteria.
- •Health-related physical fitness \<50th percentile (healthy reference).
- •German speaking.
- •internet availability and an internet-capable device to use the intervention app
- •Informed consent of parent/guardian as well as of the child.
Exclusion Criteria
- •Severe Arrhythmias
- •Severe Left Heart Failure
- •Chromosomal anomalies and/or genetic syndromes.
- •Severe physical and/or sensory impairments (hearing, visual, or psychomotor).
- •Elective cardiac intervention within the next 6 months following enrollment.
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Improvement of health related physical fitness
Time Frame: at 24 weeks
The FitnessGram® is a fitness test from the Cooper Institute that assesses health-related physical fitness. It uses evidence-based standards to measure functional health status of the musculoskeletal system divided into the components muscular strength, muscular endurance and flexibility. The FitnessGram® includes tests for the upper body and the abdominal/trunk areas. Mean scores were calculated and compared to an actual reference sample of German children and adolescents.
Secondary Outcomes
- Compliance with the supervised web- and home-based intervention(at 24 weeks)
- Change in Health-related Quality of Life (KINDL questionnaire)(at 24 weeks)
- Central/peripheral blood pressure(at 24 weeks)
- Pulse-wave-velocity(at 24 weeks)
- Intima media thickness(at 24 weeks)