More Intensive Cardiac Rehabilitation Programs in Less Time

N/ACompletedNCT02619422

Almudena Castro Conde509 enrolled

Overview

To determine if an intensive cardiac rehabilitation program with periodic reinforcements improve the compliance/adherence to secondary preventive measures (physical exercise, mediterranean diet, tobacco abstinence, pharmacological treatment) after an acute coronary syndrome with or without ST segment elevation versus an standard cardiac rehabilitation program

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

509

Conditions

Acute Coronary Syndrome

Interventions

Intensive cardiac rehabilitation program in less timeOTHER

2 weeks, 5 days a week, and reinforcement sessions at 3, 6 and 9 months

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Signed informed consent * Equal or older 18 years old * Acute coronary syndrome with or without ST elevation within last two months * Being able to do physical exercise * Being able to understand the educative sessions * Being able to understand patient information in the consent form Exclusion Criteria: * Hemodynamic instability * Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) \< or = 35% * Heart failure class III -IV (New York Heart Association (NYHA) Functional Classification) * Refractory angina * Any pathology for which physical exercise is not indicated

Locations (1)

Hospital Universitario La Paz

Madrid, Spain

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Adherence to physical exercise

Assessed in Metabolic Equivalents of Task (METS) from baseline by ergometry

Time frame: baseline-12 months

Adherence to Mediterranean diet

Assessed by Mediterranean diet adherence questionnaire (Modified Trichopoulou A,)

Time frame: baseline-12 months

Tabacco abstinence

Assessed by cooximetry (less dan 10 ppm)

Time frame: baseline-12 months

Number of participants reporting compliance with prescribed treatments

Patient-reported answers form the investigator

Time frame: baseline-12 months

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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