Effect of a Home-Based, Walking Exercise Behavior Change Intervention vs Usual Care on Walking in Adults With Peripheral Artery Disease: The MOSAIC Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Home-based walking exercise interventions are recommended for people with peripheral artery disease (PAD), but evidence of their efficacy has been mixed.

Objective

To investigate the effect of a home-based, walking exercise behavior change intervention delivered by physical therapists in adults with PAD and intermittent claudication compared with usual care.

Design, setting, and participants

Multicenter randomized clinical trial including 190 adults with PAD and intermittent claudication in 6 hospitals in the United Kingdom between January 2018 and March 2020; final follow-up was September 8, 2020.

Interventions

Participants were randomized to receive a walking exercise behavior change intervention delivered by physical therapists trained to use a mo

SUBMITTER: Bearne LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9006109 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature