Feasibility of telerehabilitation for heart failure patients inaccessible for outpatient rehabilitation.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Despite strong recommendations, outpatient cardiac rehabilitation is underused in chronic heart failure (CHF) patients. Possible barriers are frailty, accessibility, and rural living, which may be overcome by telerehabilitation. We designed a randomized, controlled trial to evaluate the feasibility of a 3-month real-time, home-based telerehabilitation, high-intensity exercise programme for CHF patients who are either unable or unwilling to participate in standard outpatient cardiac rehabilitation and to explore outcomes of self-efficacy and physical fitness at 3 months post-intervention.

Methods and results

CHF patients with reduced (≤40%), mildly reduced (41-49%), or preserved ejection fraction (≥50%) (n = 61) were randomized 1:1 to telerehabilitation or control in a p

SUBMITTER: Lundgren KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10375147 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature