Children with congenital heart diseases (CHD) often show reduced health related physical fitness as well as limitations in gross and fine motor skills/development. Intervention programs in childhood are still rare and often focus just on the improvement of cardiac outcomes or exercise capacity. Web-based interventions, as a useful alternative to training manuals or supervised training, are cost effective and allow a customization of training times. Primary purpose of this study is to improve health related physical fitness in children with congenital heart disease.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
70
* The intervention group gets access to a training platform. Every week, 3 training videos of 20 minutes each will be released on that platform with the aim to perform those during the ongoing week. * Each exercise session is arranged in a video session with child friendly instructions and executions for the different exercises. The videos serve as a virtual training partner and exercise will be performed simultaneously while watching the video * The overall training volume is 72 session calculated from 3 sessions per week over a duration of 24 weeks (6 month)
Department of Paediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Defects, German Heart Center of the State Bavaria (Munich), Technical University of Munich (TUM)
München, Germany
Improvement of health related physical fitness
The FitnessGram® is a fitness test from the Cooper Institute that assesses health-related physical fitness. It uses evidence-based standards to measure functional health status of the musculoskeletal system divided into the components muscular strength, muscular endurance and flexibility. The FitnessGram® includes tests for the upper body and the abdominal/trunk areas. Mean scores were calculated and compared to an actual reference sample of German children and adolescents.
Time frame: at 24 weeks
Compliance with the supervised web- and home-based intervention
Participation rate in training sessions (%)
Time frame: at 24 weeks
Central/peripheral blood pressure
mean change in mmHg between intervention and control group
Time frame: at 24 weeks
Intima media thickness
mean change in mm between intervention and control group
Time frame: at 24 weeks
Pulse-wave-velocity
mean change in m/s between intervention and control group
Time frame: at 24 weeks
Change in Health-related Quality of Life (KINDL questionnaire)
Time frame: at 24 weeks
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