The Efficacy and Cost-Effectiveness of Behavioral Counseling for Exercise in Men and Women Following Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI)

Summary

Purpose: The purpose of this project is to determine how effective the telephone-based counseling program is at helping patients with heart disease become more physically active.

Hypotheses to be tested:

* Compared to usual care, patients in the physical activity counseling program will:

1. significantly increase total distance measured by an accelerometer and minutes of physical activity at a moderate intensity or higher,
2. have significantly higher generic and heart-disease health-related quality of life, and
3. will lead to greater improvements in the mediators of behavior change (psychosocial variables, i.e. self-efficacy, outcome expectations, etc.) at 26 and 52 weeks;
* Changes in the mediators of physical activity will predict changes in physical activity outcomes at 26 and 52 weeks;
* The physical activity counseling program is preferable to usual care from the perspective of health care system costs.

Conditions

• Coronary Arteriosclerosis
• Myocardial Infarction

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Telephone-based physical activity counseling program

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario

  collaborator OTHER

• Ottawa Heart Institute Research Corporation

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Robert Reid, PhD, MBA · Ottawa Heart Institute Research Corporation

• Louise Morrin, RPT, MBA · Ottawa Heart Institute Research Corporation

• Lyall Higginson, MD, FRCP(C) · Ottawa Heart Institute Research Corporation

• Andrew Pipe, MD · The University of Ottawa Heart Institute

• Andreas Wielgosz, MD, FRCP(C) · The Ottawa General Hospital - Department of Cadiology - General Campus

• Neil Oldridge, PhD · College of Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

• George Wells, PhD · Clinical Epidemiology Unit, University of Ottawa Heart Institute

• Chris Blanchard, PhD · Department of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa & University of Ottawa Heart Institute

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

20 Years

Max Age

85 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2005-08-31

Primary Completion

2009-12-31

Completion

2009-12-31

Countries

• Canada

Study Locations