Self-management and Theory-based Rehabilitation Encouraging New Gateways to Healthy-Hearts

Summary

The goal of this intervention is translate current behaviour change in to community cardiac rehabilitation programmes for people living beyond a heart attack. The main question it aims to answer is whether adding a lifestyle change programme promoted maintenance of physical activity changes will be maintained following a cardiac rehabilitation programme.

The problem Guidelines recommend that coronary heart disease patients should be offered cardiac rehabilitation which includes exercise programmes, education, and ongoing support within both clinical and community settings. Cardiac rehabilitation programmes reduce the risk of death and illness, but it is likely that patients will stop exercising without enough support. New was to encourage coronary heart disease patients to stay active both during and after taking part in cardiac rehabilitation programmes are needed.

The project Behaviour change techniques can encourage patients to stay active for longer. The aim of this project is to see whether behaviour change can encourage coronary heart disease patients taking part in community-based cardiac rehabilitation programmes to stay active for longer compared with patients receiving the standard cardiac rehabilitation programme.

The benefits It is hoped that these methods will encourage more cardiac rehabilitation patients to stay physically active for longer and improve health. The results will provide more evidence on using behavioural change techniques in cardiac rehabilitation programmes and have the potential to benefit many patients with coronary heart disease throughout Northern Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom.

Conditions

• Coronary Disease

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Self Management Strategies

During their maintenance stage cardiac rehabilitation programme, participants will be given a pedometer and asked to wear it during waking hours to record their daily step counts and/or time in physical activity each week. Participants will be encouraged to gradually achieve 150 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise per week and self-monitor their progress using the pedometer. At the end of every week, participants will review progress and set goals with an exercise professional. Group discussions will also take place, focusing on the benefits of regular physical activity, demonstrating lifestyle activities that can help accumulate activity and identifying various means of social support, and identifying local opportunities (groups or places) for physical activity after the cardiac rehabilitation programme has ended. Following this, they will receive a monthly phone call from the exercise professional to check progress and encourage them to continue with the programme.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Belfast Health Development Unit

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Belfast Health and Social Care Trust

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Ulster

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Nicole E Blackburn, PhD · Ulster University

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE

Model

CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2023-03-01

Primary Completion

2024-08-26

Completion

2024-08-26

Countries

• United Kingdom

Study Locations