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

Status: Recruiting
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Intervention Type: Behavioral
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY

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.

Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 18
Healthy Volunteers: t
View:

• 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

Locations
United States
Nebraska
University of Nebraska Medical Center
RECRUITING
Omaha
Contact Information
Primary
Windy W Alonso, PhD
windy.alonso@unmc.edu
402-559-8342
Time Frame
Start Date: 2023-11-20
Estimated Completion Date: 2028-03
Participants
Target number of participants: 300
Treatments
Experimental: HEART Camp
Participants in the HEART Camp group will be provided paid, in-person access to the medical fitness center and in-person coaching by a trained coach.
Experimental: HEART Camp Connect
Participants in the HEART Camp Connect group will be provided paid, virtual access to the medical fitness center and virtual coaching by a trained coach via videoconference. Participants will also receive automated, asynchronous motivational electronic messaging if they are below the weekly adherence threshold.
No_intervention: Enhanced Usual Care
Participants in the Enhanced Usual Care group will be provided paid virtual access to the medical fitness center and virtual availability of the medical fitness center staff and study personnel for participant-initiated questions.
Sponsors
Leads: University of Nebraska

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