Effect of a Motivational Intervention on Exercise Adherence After Cardiac Rehabilitation

NCT ID: NCT04806841

Last Updated: 2025-02-07

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 11 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2018-11-29
• Study Completion Date: 2019-11-22

Brief Summary

The Canadian Physical Activity Guidelines recommend that adults should exercise for at least 150 minutes per week. Incorporating 150 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity (MVPA) a week has been associated with the prevention of at least 25 chronic diseases, including cardiovascular disease. However, most people do not successfully maintain this active behavior. The primary objective of this investigation is to understand what predicts successful exercise adherence and why people dropout from the gym. The long-term impact of this study has implications for future policy level interventions aimed at exercise adherence.

Detailed Description

The participants will receive a link to the baseline survey at www.surveymonkey.com. After completing the survey, the participants will be randomized into an intervention or a control group. The intervention group will be invited to attend a group meeting at weeks 1, 6 and 12 (3-month mark) which will take place at the EPIC center. These meetings will help participants create effective goals and methods on maintaining their motivation to exercise regularly. The participants will then receive a monthly phone call follow-up at months 4-6. The purpose of these meeting/follow-ups is to serve as a review of the worksheet, address any questions and help make any modification plans if necessary. Participants in the control group will be simply encouraged to exercise at the EPIC center and complete the online surveys. Participants in the control group will receive the skills/tactics at the end of the study. As members of the EPIC center, all participants will have access to four weekly supervised sesssions for three months.

Conditions

Aging

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Intervention group

Participants will have access to 4 weekly supervised training sessions for 3 months. The intervention group will also take part in 3 group meetings (behavioral intervention) and will receive follow-up phone calls from month 4 to 6.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Motivational intervention

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Three group meeting of 60 minutes to help create effective goals and methods on maintaining motivation to exercise regularly. These meetings will help participants create effective goals and methods on maintaining their motivation to exercise regularly. They will then receive a monthly phone call follow-up at months 4-6.

Control group

Participants will have access to 4 weekly supervised training sessions for 3 months without any behavioral intervention.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Control intervention

Intervention Type: OTHER

Participants in the control group will be simply encouraged to exercise at the EPIC center and complete the online surveys. Participants in the control group will receive the skills/tactics at the end of the study.

Interventions

Motivational intervention

Three group meeting of 60 minutes to help create effective goals and methods on maintaining motivation to exercise regularly. These meetings will help participants create effective goals and methods on maintaining their motivation to exercise regularly. They will then receive a monthly phone call follow-up at months 4-6.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Control intervention

Participants in the control group will be simply encouraged to exercise at the EPIC center and complete the online surveys. Participants in the control group will receive the skills/tactics at the end of the study.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• 50 years and older, included in the prevention clinique at Epic Center after an acute coronary syndrome (≤ 12 months) with or without revascularization, doing less than 150 minutes of physical activity per week. The approval of a cardiologist is needed to take part in this program. A normal score on the MoCA (≥ 26) is needed.

Exclusion Criteria

• Valve surgery without any coronary event, non-cardiopulmonary exercise limitation, stress induce malignant arrhythmia and decompensate heart failure

• Minimum Eligible Age: 50 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Louis Bherer

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Louis Bherer

Associate scientific director, Direction of prevention, Montreal Heart Institute

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Louis Bherer, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Montreal Heart Institute

Locations

Preventive medicine and physical activity centre (centre EPIC), Montreal Heart Institute

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Countries

Canada

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Other Identifiers

2017-2235

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id