A Trial of Rehabilitation Therapy in Older Acute Heart Failure Patients

N/ACompletedNCT02196038

Wake Forest University Health Sciences349 enrolled

Overview

REHAB-HF: A Trial of Rehabilitation Therapy in Older Acute Heart Failure Patients, is a multicenter, randomized, attention-controlled, single-blind trial designed to examine the hypothesis that, in addition to standard care, a novel, tailored, progressive, multi-domain rehabilitation intervention administered to older patients with acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) beginning early during hospitalization and continuing for 12 weeks will improve physical function and key clinical outcomes, including the rate of rehospitalization.

There will be three lead centers, Wake Forest Baptist Health along with Thomas Jefferson University and Hospital-Co-Investigator Dr. David Whellan, and Duke University Medical Center-Co-Investigator Dr. Christopher O'Connor. Each center may recruit up to 3 geographically close, tightly affiliated 'satellite' sites under their management and budgetary control. Together, these sites will recruit a total of 352 consenting patients ≥ 60 years old hospitalized with ADHF. Following informed consent and baseline testing, the participants will be randomized in a 1:1 fashion to receive a 12-week novel, progressive, multi-domain rehabilitation and exercise training intervention or attention control. The multi-domain rehabilitation intervention will include endurance, mobility, strength, and balance training and will be tailored based on participant performance in each of these domains. It will begin upon randomization during the hospitalization and will continue 3 times per week in an outpatient setting. Participants randomized to the attention control arm will receive all services ordered by their primary physician and will be contacted bi-weekly by study staff. All participants will undergo measures of physical function and quality of life at baseline, 1 month, and 3 months. Clinical events will be monitored for 6 months following the index hospitalization.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

Conditions

Acute Decompensated Heart Failure

Interventions

multi-domain rehabilitation interventionBEHAVIORAL

Individual, tailored, progressive physical function rehabilitation intervention

Attention ControlBEHAVIORAL

Usual care with bi-weekly contact from study staff

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 60 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Age ≥ 60 years old * In the hospital setting \>24 hours for the management of ADHF, or diagnosed with ADHF after being hospitalized for another reason. ADHF will be confirmed by the study physician, and will be defined according to the Food and Drug Administration definition of hospitalized heart failure as a combination of symptoms, signs, and HF-specific medical treatments. Exclusion Criteria: * Acute myocardial infarction * Planned discharge other than to home or a facility where the participant will live independently * Already actively participating in formal, facility-based cardiac rehabilitation

Locations (3)

Duke University Medical Center

Durham, North Carolina, United States

Wake Forest Baptist Health

Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States

Thomas Jefferson University and Hospital

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB) at Month 3

The Short Physical Performance Battery is scored on a scale of 0-12, with a higher score indicating better physical function.

Time frame: Month 3

Secondary Outcomes

All-Cause Rehospitalization

Number of all-cause rehospitalizations 6 months from index hospital discharge.

Time frame: Month 6

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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