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Does a prehabilitation programme help people prepare for heart surgery? A feasibility study

Non-randomised mixed-methods feasibility studies to evaluate the delivery, adherence, and acceptability of a prehabilitation programme for patients undergoing cardiac surgery

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
ISRCTN
Registry ID
ISRCTN34562261
Enrollment
60
Registered
2026-08-06
Start date
2026-09-01
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2026-08-10

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Cardiac surgery Surgery

Interventions

All participants receive the prehabilitation programme alongside their usual NHS care. The study does not test a formal hypothesis or whether the programme is effective
instead, it focuses on whether it is practical to deliver the programme in the NHS and whether a future randomised controlled trial is feasible. The study includes two sequential feasibility studies

Sponsors

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 120 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. Adults (aged >=18 years) 2. Accepted for cardiac surgery

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. Patients undergoing cardiac transplantation 2. Unable to provide informed consent

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
1. Recruitment and retention feasibility measured as the proportion of screened eligible patients recruited to the study and the proportion of recruited participants completing study follow-up, using study screening, recruitment and follow-up records recorded in the REDCap study database, throughout recruitment and at three months after surgery 2. Implementation fidelity and patient engagement measured as the proportion of participants adhering to the prehabilitation intervention and the proportion recording at least two agreed prehabilitation goals and achieving those goals within the My Heart Surgery workbook, using participant workbook records and intervention delivery and follow-up records recorded in the REDCap study database, throughout the intervention period and at completion of the intervention (pre-surgery) 3. Acceptability and feasibility of intervention delivery in different settings measured as the acceptability and feasibility of delivering the intervention across outpatient and inpatient settings from the perspectives of participants and healthcare professionals, using semi-structured qualitative interviews with patients, healthcare professionals and trained intervention providers, during and following intervention delivery 4. Barriers and facilitators to implementation measured as patient-, healthcare professional- and organisation-level barriers and facilitators to implementing the intervention, using semi-structured qualitative interviews with patients, healthcare professionals and trained intervention providers, during and following intervention delivery 5. Feasibility of collecting quality-of-life, healthcare resource-use and cost data to inform a future definitive randomised controlled trial measured as the completeness and feasibility of collecting health-related quality-of-life, healthcare resource-use and cost data, using the SF-36v2, EQ-5D-5L, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), Duke Activity Status Index (DASI), Modular Resource U

Countries

England, United Kingdom

Contacts

Public ContactFit4HeartOp Study Team
cardiac-prehab@bristol.ac.uk+44 117 455 0870

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Aug 25, 2026