Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Paediatric Cardiologists About Cardiac Rehabilitation in Children With Congenital Heart Disease

NCT ID: NCT06356454

Last Updated: 2024-04-15

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Total Enrollment: 100 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2024-06-02
• Study Completion Date: 2025-12-02

Brief Summary

Despite significant clinical benefits and recommendations of clinical practice guidelines to refer patients for exercise and physical activity counselling in the capacity of cardiac rehabilitation (CR), CR is largely underutilised and not implemented effectively. Studies have reported that the reasons for the low implementation of CR are multifactorial at the healthcare system, physician and patient levels. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the knowledge, attitudes and practical applications of paediatric cardiologists regarding cardiac rehabilitation and specifically exercise and physical activity in children with congenital heart disease (CHD).

Conditions

Physician's Role

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: COHORT
• Study Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE

Interventions

Questionnaire on knowledge, attitudes and practices of paediatric cardiologists about cardiac rehabilitation in children with congenital heart disease

Creating the questionnaire: The self-administered questionnaire was designed based on literature review. The questions of the questionnaire were based on the 3 main components of the World Health Organisation's Knowledge, Attitude and Practice framework. The questions were evaluated by experts in the field such as cardiologists working in paediatric cardiology. The questionnaire, which was finalised with the questions updated according to expert opinions, has 5 sections:

• Section 1: Socio-demographic questions
• Section 2: Questions on the level of knowledge about CR
• Section 3: Questions on attitudes about CR
• Section 4: Questions on Practices about CR

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• To be a paediatric cardiologist,
• Providing active service in patient diagnosis and treatment

Exclusion Criteria

• Not providing active service in patient diagnosis and treatment despite being a paediatric cardiologist (administrative position, etc.).

• Minimum Eligible Age: 32 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 70 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Haluk Tekerlek

Research assistant, PhD

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Central Contacts

Haluk Tekerlek

Role: CONTACT

haluktekerlek@gmail.com

+90-5355915009

Other Identifiers

KAPCON-CR

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id