NCT04074057

Effectiveness of a Novel Mobile App Based Cardiac Rehabilitation

Status unknown NA Last updated 29 August 2019

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Conventional Cardiac Rehab Classes in Cardiac Disease in 34 participants. Status unknown.

Timeline

1 May 2019

Primary endpoint
31 May 2020

31 May 2020

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Tan Tock Seng Hospital
Phase	NA
Status	Status unknown
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	double
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	34
Start date	1 May 2019
Primary completion	31 May 2020
Estimated completion	31 May 2020
Sites	1 location across Singapore

Drugs / interventions tested

• Conventional Cardiac Rehab Classes
• Heart Track

Conditions studied

• Cardiac Disease — all drugs for Cardiac Disease →

Sponsor

Tan Tock Seng Hospital

Who can join

Adults 21 to 65, any sex, with Cardiac Disease. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

n Tan Tock Seng (TTSH), Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is one of the top 4 reasons for admissions with 948 percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedures done in year 2016. International guidelines recommend that all patients complete CR after PCI, as it plays a critical role in reducing five-year cardiovascular mortality and the risk of cardiovascular-related hospital admission. However, the rate of completion of CR has been found to be low as only 19% of post PCI patients completed CR in 2016. According to a patient survey conducted, the main reason for non-completion is the inconvenience experienced by patients from needing to return to hospital weekly. In addition, poor compliance to prescribed home exercises limits the effectiveness of exercise training. Hence, there is a pertinent need to activate patients to engage in self-directed CR in a safe and effective manner to target these issues. Current solutions to increase participation and compliance involve strategies have been limited. Participation and compliance to prescribed exercises recorded via brochures and activity diaries have been limited by difficulties experienced by patients when providing this information, posing a risk of recall bias or the risk of misplacing their activity logs. Mobile applications targeted at increasing fitness addresses the problem of the risk of misplacing activity logs but is still subjected to recall bias as self-input of multiple data is required. Exercise guidelines within these applications are also generic and does not adhere to international exercise training guidelines targeted at patients after coronary revascularisation. In order to address these gaps, there is a need for a technology enabled solution that can provide evidence-based CR programme with constant HR monitoring which offers direct feedback to the patients and at the same time affordable and easy to use. "Heart-Track" is a novel mobile app based CR model of care that utilises a technology-enabled device designed specifically for patients post PCI to complete CR at their convenience, while ensuring that evidence-based clinical outcomes are achieved.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial.