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Web-Based Motor Intervention to Increase Health-Related Physical Fitness in Children With Congenital Heart Disease: A Study Protocol
Objective: Exercise interventions are underutilized in children with congenital heart disease (CHD) especially when the primary outcome is not peak oxygen uptake. Most of the studies are restricted to a low sample size and proximity of the patients to the study centers. Now eHealth approaches bear a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6120348/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30211141 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fped.2018.00224 |
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author | Meyer, Michael Hreinsdottir, Adalheidur Häcker, Anna-Luisa Brudy, Leon Oberhoffer, Renate Ewert, Peter Müller, Jan |
author_facet | Meyer, Michael Hreinsdottir, Adalheidur Häcker, Anna-Luisa Brudy, Leon Oberhoffer, Renate Ewert, Peter Müller, Jan |
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description | Objective: Exercise interventions are underutilized in children with congenital heart disease (CHD) especially when the primary outcome is not peak oxygen uptake. Most of the studies are restricted to a low sample size and proximity of the patients to the study centers. Now eHealth approaches bear a promising but also challenging opportunity to transmit such intervention programs to participants, and check progress and compliance from remote. This study will aim to improve health-related physical fitness (HRPF) with a 24 weeks web-based exercise intervention. Methods and Design: The current study is planned as a randomized control trial (RCT) with a crossover design and the aim to improve functional outcome measures. It also estimates adherence and feasibility in patients with CHD in this web-based exercise/motor intervention over 24 weeks. Primary outcome will be the improvement of HRPF. Secondary outcomes are, functional and structural arterial stiffness measures and health-related quality of life. Thus, 70 children from 10 to 18 years with CHD of moderate and complex severity will be recruited and allocated randomly 1:1 in two study arms after baseline testing for their HRPF, arterial stiffness measures and health-related quality of life. For 24 weeks, participants in the intervention arm will receive three weekly exercise video clips of 20 min each. Every video clip comprises 20 child-oriented exercises which have to be executed for 30 s followed by a recovery period of 30 s. Each session will start with 3–4 warming-up exercises, followed by 10–12 strength and flexibility exercises, and ending with 3–4 min of cool down or stretching tasks. Continuous video clips will be streamed from a web-based e-Learning platform. The participant simply has to imitate the execution and follow some short advices. After each session, a brief online survey will be conducted to assess perceived exertion and feasibility. Discussion: The study will help to determine the efficacy and applicability of a web-based exercise intervention in children with CHD in regard to functional outcome measures. In addition, it will outline the effectiveness of remote monitoring, which provides a cost effective approach to reach patients with CHD that are low in prevalence and often do not live in close proximity to their tertiary center. Trial Registration: https://ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03488797. |
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spelling | pubmed-61203482018-09-12 Web-Based Motor Intervention to Increase Health-Related Physical Fitness in Children With Congenital Heart Disease: A Study Protocol Meyer, Michael Hreinsdottir, Adalheidur Häcker, Anna-Luisa Brudy, Leon Oberhoffer, Renate Ewert, Peter Müller, Jan Front Pediatr Pediatrics Objective: Exercise interventions are underutilized in children with congenital heart disease (CHD) especially when the primary outcome is not peak oxygen uptake. Most of the studies are restricted to a low sample size and proximity of the patients to the study centers. Now eHealth approaches bear a promising but also challenging opportunity to transmit such intervention programs to participants, and check progress and compliance from remote. This study will aim to improve health-related physical fitness (HRPF) with a 24 weeks web-based exercise intervention. Methods and Design: The current study is planned as a randomized control trial (RCT) with a crossover design and the aim to improve functional outcome measures. It also estimates adherence and feasibility in patients with CHD in this web-based exercise/motor intervention over 24 weeks. Primary outcome will be the improvement of HRPF. Secondary outcomes are, functional and structural arterial stiffness measures and health-related quality of life. Thus, 70 children from 10 to 18 years with CHD of moderate and complex severity will be recruited and allocated randomly 1:1 in two study arms after baseline testing for their HRPF, arterial stiffness measures and health-related quality of life. For 24 weeks, participants in the intervention arm will receive three weekly exercise video clips of 20 min each. Every video clip comprises 20 child-oriented exercises which have to be executed for 30 s followed by a recovery period of 30 s. Each session will start with 3–4 warming-up exercises, followed by 10–12 strength and flexibility exercises, and ending with 3–4 min of cool down or stretching tasks. Continuous video clips will be streamed from a web-based e-Learning platform. The participant simply has to imitate the execution and follow some short advices. After each session, a brief online survey will be conducted to assess perceived exertion and feasibility. Discussion: The study will help to determine the efficacy and applicability of a web-based exercise intervention in children with CHD in regard to functional outcome measures. In addition, it will outline the effectiveness of remote monitoring, which provides a cost effective approach to reach patients with CHD that are low in prevalence and often do not live in close proximity to their tertiary center. Trial Registration: https://ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03488797. Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-08-27 /pmc/articles/PMC6120348/ /pubmed/30211141 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fped.2018.00224 Text en Copyright © 2018 Meyer, Hreinsdottir, Häcker, Brudy, Oberhoffer, Ewert and Müller. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Pediatrics Meyer, Michael Hreinsdottir, Adalheidur Häcker, Anna-Luisa Brudy, Leon Oberhoffer, Renate Ewert, Peter Müller, Jan Web-Based Motor Intervention to Increase Health-Related Physical Fitness in Children With Congenital Heart Disease: A Study Protocol |
title | Web-Based Motor Intervention to Increase Health-Related Physical Fitness in Children With Congenital Heart Disease: A Study Protocol |
title_full | Web-Based Motor Intervention to Increase Health-Related Physical Fitness in Children With Congenital Heart Disease: A Study Protocol |
title_fullStr | Web-Based Motor Intervention to Increase Health-Related Physical Fitness in Children With Congenital Heart Disease: A Study Protocol |
title_full_unstemmed | Web-Based Motor Intervention to Increase Health-Related Physical Fitness in Children With Congenital Heart Disease: A Study Protocol |
title_short | Web-Based Motor Intervention to Increase Health-Related Physical Fitness in Children With Congenital Heart Disease: A Study Protocol |
title_sort | web-based motor intervention to increase health-related physical fitness in children with congenital heart disease: a study protocol |
topic | Pediatrics |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6120348/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30211141 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fped.2018.00224 |
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