HEART Camp Connect -Promoting Exercise in Adults With Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction

Description

The goal of this study is to learn more about patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) and exercise. Investigators want to see if meeting with a coach in person or by video conference will help these patients exercise, feel better, and change markers in their blood. Participants will be randomly placed in one of three groups for 18 months. All groups will have access to a fitness center and be given a watch and heart rate monitor to wear during exercise. The usual care group (control group) will have access to exercise videos via the medical fitness center and will not meet with a coach. The HEART Camp group will exercise and meet with their coach in-person at the medical fitness center. The HEART Camp Connect group will have access to exercise videos via the medical fitness center and will meet with their coach via videoconferencing. All participants will take part in an exercise test and study training prior to being randomized. At four data collection time points, participants will wear an activity monitor for 7 days each, have their blood drawn, and answer questions related to heart failure and exercise. Participants will also wear a heart rate monitor when they exercise and fill out a daily exercise diary.

Conditions

HFpEF - Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

The goal of this study is to learn more about patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) and exercise. Investigators want to see if meeting with a coach in person or by video conference will help these patients exercise, feel better, and change markers in their blood. Participants will be randomly placed in one of three groups for 18 months. All groups will have access to a fitness center and be given a watch and heart rate monitor to wear during exercise. The usual care group (control group) will have access to exercise videos via the medical fitness center and will not meet with a coach. The HEART Camp group will exercise and meet with their coach in-person at the medical fitness center. The HEART Camp Connect group will have access to exercise videos via the medical fitness center and will meet with their coach via videoconferencing. All participants will take part in an exercise test and study training prior to being randomized. At four data collection time points, participants will wear an activity monitor for 7 days each, have their blood drawn, and answer questions related to heart failure and exercise. Participants will also wear a heart rate monitor when they exercise and fill out a daily exercise diary.

HEART (Heart Failure Exercise and Resistance Training) Camp Connect: Promoting Adherence to Exercise in Adults With Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction

HEART Camp Connect -Promoting Exercise in Adults With Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction

Condition
HFpEF - Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Omaha

University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 68198-5330

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Diagnosis of heart failure with an ejection fraction greater than or equal to 50
  • * Echocardiogram in prior 24 months
  • * Stable pharmacologic therapy in the past 30 days
  • * Score greater than or equal to 6 on the heart failure with preserved ejection fraction algorithm or hemodynamic evidence of HFpEF
  • * Life-limiting illness precluding study completion
  • * Clinical evidence of decompensated heart failure
  • * Unstable angina or marked shortness of breath on exertion at less than 2 metabolic equivalents
  • * Myocardial infarction, coronary artery bypass graft, or biventricular pacemaker in prior 6 weeks
  • * Orthopedic or neuromuscular disorders preventing aerobic exercise
  • * Cardiopulmonary exercise test results that preclude safe exercise
  • * Unwilling/unable to complete pre-randomization procedures
  • * Pregnancy
  • * Implantable cardioverter defibrillator

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

University of Nebraska,

Windy W Alonso, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, University of Nebraska

Study Record Dates

2028-03