Study of adherence to exercise in heart failure: the HEART camp trial protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adherence to the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA) 2010 guidelines recommending 30 minutes of supervised moderate intensity exercise five days per week is difficult for patients with heart failure (HF). Innovative programs are needed to assist HF patients to adhere to long-term exercise. The objective of this prospective randomized two-group repeated measures experimental design is to determine the efficacy of a behavioral exercise training intervention on long-term adherence to exercise at 18 months in patients with heart failure.

Methods/design

A sample size of 246 subjects with heart failure will be recruited over a 3 year period. All subjects receive a cardiopulmonary exercise test and 9 supervised exercise training sessions during a 3 week run-in period

SUBMITTER: Pozehl BJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4280683 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature