Home-based walking exercise intervention in peripheral artery disease: a randomized clinical trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Clinical practice guidelines state there is insufficient evidence to support advising patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD) to participate in a home-based walking exercise program.

Objective

To determine whether a home-based walking exercise program that uses a group-mediated cognitive behavioral intervention, incorporating both group support and self-regulatory skills, can improve functional performance compared with a health education control group in patients with PAD with and without intermittent claudication.

Design, setting, and patients

Randomized controlled clinical trial of 194 patients with PAD, including 72.2% without classic symptoms of intermittent claudication, performed in Chicago, Illinois between July 22, 2008, and December 14, 2012

SUBMITTER: McDermott MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6007977 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature