McCormack, Ciara ORCID: 0000-0003-4508-5522, Kehoe, Bróna ORCID: 0000-0003-4552-0555, Harcastle, Sarah, McCaffery, Noel ORCID: 0000-0003-0950-2157, McCarren, Andrew ORCID: 0000-0002-7297-0984, Gaine, Sean, McCullagh, Brian and Moyna, Niall ORCID: 0000-0003-1061-8528 (2021) Pulmonary hypertension and homebased (PHAHB) exercise intervention: protocol for a feasibility study. British Medical Journal (BMJ), 11 (5). ISSN 0959-8138
Abstract
Introduction Novel therapies for pulmonary hypertension
(PH) have improved survival and slowed disease
progression. However, patients still present with symptoms
of exertional dyspnoea and fatigue, which impacts their
ability to perform activities of daily living, reduces exercise
tolerance and impairs their quality of life (QoL). Exercise
training has shown to be safe and effective at enhancing
QoL and physical function in PH patients, yet it remains
an underused adjunct therapy. Most exercise training
for PH patients has been offered through hospital-based
programmes. Home-based exercise programmes provide
an alternative model that has the potential to increase
the availability and accessibility of exercise training as
an adjunct therapy in PH. The purpose of this study is to
investigate the feasibility, acceptability, utility and safety
of a novel remotely supervised home-based PH exercise
programme.
Methods Single arm intervention with a pre/post
comparisons design and a follow-up maintenance phase
will be employed. Eligible participants (n=25) will be
recruited from the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital
PH Unit. Participants will undergo a 10-week home-based
exercise programme, with induction training, support
materials, telecommunication support and health coaching
sessions followed by a 10-week maintenance phase.
The primary outcomes are feasibility, acceptability, utility
and safety of the intervention. Secondary outcomes will
include the impact of the intervention on exercise capacity,
physical activity, strength, health-related QoL and exercise
self-efficacy.
Ethics and dissemination Ethics approval has been
obtained from the Mater Misericordiae Institutional Review
Board REF:1/378/2032 and Dublin City University Research
Ethics DCUREC/2018/246. A manuscript of the results will
be submitted to a peer-reviewed journal and results will
be presented at conferences, community and consumer
forums and hospital research conferences.
Trial registration number ISRCTN83783446; Pre-results
Metadata
Item Type: | Article (Published) |
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Refereed: | Yes |
Additional Information: | Article number: e045460 |
Subjects: | Medical Sciences > Exercise Medical Sciences > Health |
DCU Faculties and Centres: | DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science and Health > School of Health and Human Performance Research Institutes and Centres > INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics |
Publisher: | BMJ Publishing Group |
Official URL: | https://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-045460 |
Copyright Information: | © 2021 Authors. Open Access (CC-BY-NC 4.0) |
ID Code: | 26568 |
Deposited On: | 07 Jan 2022 13:56 by Andrew Mccarren . Last Modified 03 Oct 2022 13:50 |
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