Comprehensive Hybrid Cardiac Rehabilitation Trial on Heart Failure

NCT ID: NCT06313684

Last Updated: 2024-12-03

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

152 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2024-04-01

Study Completion Date

2027-03-31

Brief Summary

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CO-CREATION-HF aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a comprehensive and hybrid cardiac rehabilitation model compared to supervised exercise alone.

Detailed Description

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Comprehensive, hybrid cardiac rehabilitation (CR) models have been scantly investigated in heart failure (HF) populations, particularly in low-resource settings.

A 2 parallel-arm, multi-center randomized clinical superiority trial will be conducted with blinded outcome assessment. 152 HF patients (NYHA class II or III) will be recruited consecutively, and randomly assigned. The experimental intervention will include evaluation, medical and nurse management, aerobic interval training, resistance exercise, psychosocial support, and education. These will initially be delivered in a center, transitioning to home in 4 stages. Participants in the control arm will receive face-to-face continuous aerobic exercise sessions and resistance exercises. The main outcomes are cardiorespiratory fitness, functional capacity, and quality of life. These will be measured at baseline, end of intervention, and 12-month follow-up.

The pragmatic, comprehensive hybrid CR model could be implemented more broadly if superiority is demonstrated.

Conditions

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Heart Failure NYHA Class II Heart Failure NYHA Class III

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Comprehensive Hybrid Cardiac Rehabilitation

The 24-week Cardiac Rehabilitation intervention will include evaluation, medical and nurse management, aerobic interval training, resistance exercise, psychosocial support, and education. These will initially be delivered in a health center, transitioning to home in 4 stages.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Comprehensive Initial Assessment

Intervention Type OTHER

Initial Assessment includes all those necessary to prescribe exercise training, as well as dietary and adherence promotion interventions.

* Functional capacity with 6MWT
* Assessment of skeletal muscle strength, flexibility, and balance.
* Assessment of function
* Assessment of dietary habits
* Assessment of self-efficacy and barriers to CR adherence.
* Screening for depression.

Continuous evaluation

Intervention Type OTHER

Evaluations during the course of the program will be carried out to inform the progression through the CR stages, the intensity of training and education needs.

Interval Exercise

Intervention Type OTHER

High-intensity interval training prescribed by physical therapist:

* According to an adapted Wisloff protocol.
* Borg scale to monitor intensity.
* Training 3 times per week.

Psychosocial support

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Based on social-cognitive theory, with self-efficacy as a focus:

* Face-to-face sessions in the first stage of the program: Education, self-monitoring and motivational interview.
* Face-to-face session in the second stage of the program: promoting behavior changes by self-control and self-monitoring
* Regular communication with patients will be supported by the use of mobile devices during the third and fourth stages of program.

Diet management

Intervention Type OTHER

A dietary plan supported by a nutritionist will be made together with the patient.

Resistance exercise

Intervention Type OTHER

Resistance exercises:

* With TheraBand.
* Intensity according to the perceived exertion scale
* Twice a week.

Exercise and center-based Cardiac Rehabilitation

Cardiac rehabilitation with face-to-face continuous aerobic exercise sessions and resistance exercises.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Resistance exercise

Intervention Type OTHER

Resistance exercises:

* With TheraBand.
* Intensity according to the perceived exertion scale
* Twice a week.

Continuous exercise

Intervention Type OTHER

Moderate-intensity continuous exercise prescribed by physical therapist :

* The intensity will be moderate, as tolerated
* Borg scale to monitor intensity.
* Frequency of training of 1 to 3 times per week, until completed 20 sessions in 10-12 weeks.

Initial Assessment

Intervention Type OTHER

Includes all those necessary to plan exercise training, as usual:

* Functional capacity with 6MWT.
* Assessment of skeletal muscle strength.

Interventions

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Comprehensive Initial Assessment

Initial Assessment includes all those necessary to prescribe exercise training, as well as dietary and adherence promotion interventions.

* Functional capacity with 6MWT
* Assessment of skeletal muscle strength, flexibility, and balance.
* Assessment of function
* Assessment of dietary habits
* Assessment of self-efficacy and barriers to CR adherence.
* Screening for depression.

Intervention Type OTHER

Continuous evaluation

Evaluations during the course of the program will be carried out to inform the progression through the CR stages, the intensity of training and education needs.

Intervention Type OTHER

Interval Exercise

High-intensity interval training prescribed by physical therapist:

* According to an adapted Wisloff protocol.
* Borg scale to monitor intensity.
* Training 3 times per week.

Intervention Type OTHER

Psychosocial support

Based on social-cognitive theory, with self-efficacy as a focus:

* Face-to-face sessions in the first stage of the program: Education, self-monitoring and motivational interview.
* Face-to-face session in the second stage of the program: promoting behavior changes by self-control and self-monitoring
* Regular communication with patients will be supported by the use of mobile devices during the third and fourth stages of program.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Diet management

A dietary plan supported by a nutritionist will be made together with the patient.

Intervention Type OTHER

Resistance exercise

Resistance exercises:

* With TheraBand.
* Intensity according to the perceived exertion scale
* Twice a week.

Intervention Type OTHER

Continuous exercise

Moderate-intensity continuous exercise prescribed by physical therapist :

* The intensity will be moderate, as tolerated
* Borg scale to monitor intensity.
* Frequency of training of 1 to 3 times per week, until completed 20 sessions in 10-12 weeks.

Intervention Type OTHER

Initial Assessment

Includes all those necessary to plan exercise training, as usual:

* Functional capacity with 6MWT.
* Assessment of skeletal muscle strength.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Adult patients with HF of New York Heart Association functional class II or III.
* Meets HF diagnostic criteria of Guidelines
* On optimal tolerated medical therapy.
* Deemed by the treating physician as stable for at least 1 month.
* Able to attend the health center three times a week for the first month, and twice a week for the 2nd and 3rd months
* Owns a mobile phone
* Patient consents to participate in the study by signing an informed consent form.

Exclusion Criteria

* Chronic kidney disease with glomerular filtration rate \< 20 mL/min.
* Decompensated thyroid disease.
* End-stage liver failure or Child-Pugh C.
* Cardiac device or cardiac surgery in the previous month or planned in the next 3 months.
* Patients with dyspnea predominantly of non-cardiac cause (e.g. COPD).
* Atrial fibrillation with a heart rate greater than 90 beats per minute at rest.
* Active neoplasm with life expectancy \<2 years.
* Inclusion in another interventional study.
* Explicit contraindications to performing exercise.
* Comorbidities that preclude the patient from engaging in a CR program.
* Musculoskeletal or neurological disease that precludes the patient from performing exercise.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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University of Chile

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Universidad de La Frontera

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Pamela Serón

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Pamela Seron, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Universidad de La Frontera

Locations

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Complejo Hospitalario San José

Santiago, , Chile

Site Status RECRUITING

Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile

Santiago, , Chile

Site Status RECRUITING

Hospital San Borja Arriarán

Santiago, , Chile

Site Status RECRUITING

Universidad de La Frontera

Temuco, , Chile

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Chile

Central Contacts

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Francisca Contreras

Role: CONTACT

56045 2325765

Facility Contacts

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Manuel Galvez

Role: primary

Karen Rouliez

Role: primary

Gonzalo Latin

Role: primary

Francisca Contreras

Role: primary

References

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Seron P, Gomez-Perez D, Opazo-Diaz E, Oliveros MJ, Contreras MF, Salinas A, Andrade-Mayorga O, Marzuca-Nassr GN, Saavedra K, Espejo C, Munoz S, Lanas F, Grace SL. CO-CREATION-HF protocol: clinical trial to evaluate the impact of a comprehensive and hybrid cardiac rehabilitation model on patients with heart failure. Front Cardiovasc Med. 2024 Nov 14;11:1427544. doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2024.1427544. eCollection 2024.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 39610971 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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Fondecyt 1230787

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id