Prevalence of physical activity in women over 60 years with or without cardiac risk or diagnosed heart disease

Suspended

Conditions: I10-I15
Z80-Z99
Hypertensive diseases
Persons with potential health hazards related to family and personal history and certain conditions influencing health status

Registration Number: DRKS00019824

Lead Sponsor: Hochschule für Gesundheit

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Suspended

Sex: Female

Target Recruitment: 320

Inclusion Criteria

• affiliation to one of the above-mentioned groups

study part a)
1. Community-dwelling women without known cardiac risk or diagnosed heart disease
2. Community-dwelling women at an increased cardiac risk
3. Community-dwelling women with diagnosed heart disease who do not participate in structured exercise programs
4. Community-dwelling women with diagnosed heart disease and participating in structured exercise programs (Herzsport-Gruppe”)
5. Women participating in in- or outpatient rehabilitation
6. Women receiving short-term care

study part b)
1. Women participating in preventive or rehabilitative exercise programs (e.g. organized by sport clubs or health insurance; cardiac exercise groups)
2. Women participating in- or outpatient rehabilitation: during a sport activity

• Sufficient knowledge of German language (spoken and written)

Exclusion Criteria

• participation during a week with unusual or modified activity behavior (due to holidays, relocation, special gardening work, start of new sports activities, scheduled hospitalization or surgery)
• acute, painful injury or not fully recovered musculoskeletal damages as bone fractures, torn ligaments or muscle injuries
• severe infectious diseases
• severe pain (e.g. back pain, osteoarthritis) adversely affecting usual daily activities
• if necessary: severe neurodermatitis or other skin diseases that prohibit to wear skin-electrodes