Congestive Heart Failure
Conditions
Interventions
Cardiac rehabilitation intervention is to be delivered
constituting prescribed exercise therapy, education and counseling therapies, and monitoring of their well-being and adherence to the secondary prevention medications they are put on by their cardiolo
guardians are to be trained to facilitate and supervise the individualized home exercise program at the beginning of therapy sessions in this study. The exercise therapy is to be prescribed using 40-
Rating of Perceived Exertion (RPE), and exercise monitoring will be done using RPE. Strength training will be prescribed using 30-70% of 1 Repetition Maximum (1RM), 2-4 sets and 10-15 repetitions. Pat
Sponsors
Kamuzu University of Health Sciences
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Men and women aged 18 years and above with a diagnosis of CHF at discharge from hospital, confirmed with an echocardiogram, and attending chest clinic at the QECH 2. On optimized secondary prevention medications 3. Being residents of Blantyre City and its immediate surrounding areas 4. Willing to provide written informed consent and willing to return for follow up 5. Being able to participate in physical activity for cardiac rehabilitation
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Failure to provide informed consent 2. Not willing to return for follow up visits 3. Physical impairment that would affect participation in physical activity 4. Patients classified as high risk for cardiac events during exertion
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The cardiorespiratory parameters ie. blood pressure, pulse rate, respiratory rate and oxygen saturation, including exercise tolerance capacity for patients are measured at baseline and after 8, 12, 16 and 24 weeks of receiving CR; the measurements are recorded in a data collection form. All health care workers are provided with questionnaires to input challenges encountered during care delivery, and suggest possible solutions. It is hypothesized that; 1. Patients with CHF would have improved cardiac function 2. Patients with CHF would have increased exercise tolerance capacity 3. Cardiac rehabilitation will be established in a more sustainable way at QECH | — |
Countries
Africa
Contacts
Public ContactAlice Namanja
Kamuzu University of Health Sciences Physiotherapy Department
Outcome results
None listed