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Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: ACHD patients who are 18 years of age or older and present themselves to the Clinic for Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Defects at the German Heart Center Munich. Patients are appro
Sponsors
Lehrstuhl für Präventive Pädiatrie der Technischen Universität München
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: - Presence of congenital heart defect (must be mild, moderate, or complex by ACC criteria) - NYHA class I and II
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: - Cognitive impairments that prevent patients from understanding tasks - Taking medication, with chronotropic, dromotropic and/or bathmotropic effects - Cardiac decompensation - Pacemaker
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The difference in both objective and subjective stress levels between ACHD and apparently healthy controls. The objective stress is measured by using a wearable (heart rate variability). Subjective stress is taken from the questionnaire (Stress and Coping Inventory). All tests, data and the distribution of the wearable are done in patients on a routine examination day at the German Heart Center. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| - Difference in sleep quality and sleep phases between ACHD and control subjects. - Difference in objective as well as subjective stress perception between ACHD and control subjects. - Correlation between subjective stress perception and measured stress level. - Correlation between maximum oxygen uptake (exercise performance) and sleep behavior as well as stress perception. - Correlation between activity and sleep behavior as well as stress perception | — |
Countries
Germany
Contacts
Public ContactJan Müller
Lehrstuhl für Präventive Pädiatrie der Technischen Universität München
Outcome results
None listed