Evaluating a Telemedicine Video Game-Linked High-Intensity Interval Training Exercise Programme in Paediatric Heart Transplant Recipients.

ABSTRACT: Paediatric heart transplant recipients (HTRs) have reduced exercise capacity, physical activity (PA), health-related quality of life (HRQoL), and self-efficacy towards PA. Exercise interventions have demonstrated improvements in exercise capacity and functional status in adult HTRs, with a specific emerging interest in the role of high-intensity interval training (HIIT). Studies of exercise interventions in paediatric HTRs have been limited and nonrandomized to date. HIIT has not yet been evaluated in paediatric HTRs. We thus seek to evaluate the safety and feasibility of a randomized crossover trial of a 12-week, home-based, video game-linked HIIT intervention using a cycle ergometer with telemedicine and remote physiological monitoring capabilities (MedBIKE) in paediatric HTRs. The secon

SUBMITTER: Spence CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10642108 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature