ESCAP: Supervised Exercise for Patients With Coronary Heart Disease in the Primary Care Setting

Summary

In Spain, family physician are currently recommended to prescribe an unsupervised walking program to their coronary heart disease (CHD) patients as a part of their cardiac rehabilitation program. However, there are a few family physicians who provide their CHD patients with supervised exercise (30 minutes of pedaling on an stationary bicycle at 60-85% of the peak heart rate (HR) attained at the maximal or symptom limited treadmill test, 3 times a week) at their primary care health centers, thinking that these patients improve their functional capacity, quality of life, and the control of cardiovascular risk factors, more than walking because they can not achieve the ideal exercise intensity for maximal benefits by walking. This study has been designed to investigate if CHD patients get more health benefits with the supervised exercise program at the health center than with the unsupervised walking program.

Conditions

• Coronary Heart Disease

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Supervised exercise on a stationary bicycle, 3-5 days a week

Supervised exercise on a stationary bicycle, 3-5 days a week, plus a secondary prevention program for coronary heart disease

BEHAVIORAL

Secondary prevention program for coronary heart disease

Secondary prevention program for coronary heart disease

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Preventive Services and Health Promotion Research Network

  collaborator OTHER

• Castilla-La Mancha Health Service

  collaborator OTHER

• Castilla-León Health Service

  collaborator OTHER

• Dalt Sant Joan primary care center (Balears Islans Health Service)

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Public Health Service of Cataluña

  collaborator OTHER

• Public Health Service of Madrid

  collaborator OTHER

• Public Health Service of Galicia

  collaborator OTHER

• Cantabria Health Service

  collaborator OTHER

• Basque Health Service

  lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

• Ricardo Ortega, Dr. · Santa Barbara primary care center (Castilla La Mancha Health Service)

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

20 Years

Max Age

79 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2005-01-31

Primary Completion

2010-06-30

Completion

2010-06-30

Countries

• Spain

Study Locations