The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether a home rehabilitation program for patients diagnosed with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) will decrease Cardiac Effort (number of heart beats used during 6-minute walk test/walk distance) and improve quality of life. Ultimately, this information could help improve the management of patients with PAH.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
TRIPLE
Enrollment
55
The intervention group will receive daily activity messages sent through SMS text message or email.The messages will provide daily exercises with heart rate guidance.
The control group will receive daily non-descript messages to help with blinding and to eliminate the confounding variable of daily contact. The messages will not include activity tasks and will include phrases such as "I hope you have a good day".
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, New York, United States
Mean change in cardiac effort
Cardiac effort is the number of heartbeats used during the a six minute walk test divided by walk distance
Time frame: baseline to 3 months
Mean change in six minutes walk distance
The amount of distance walked in six minutes
Time frame: baseline to 3 months
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