More Intensive Cardiac Rehabilitation Programs in Less Time

Multicenter, Prospective, Randomized, Open, Blinded for the End Point Evaluator to Compare Compliance to Secondary Prevention Measures After Acute Coronary Syndrome and Intensive Cardiac Rehabilitation Program vs Standard Program

Status

Completed

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT02619422

Acronym

másPORmenos

Enrollment

509

Registered

2015-12-02

Start date

2015-10-31

Completion date

2018-02-28

Last updated

2018-06-06

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Conditions

Acute Coronary Syndrome

Keywords

Cardiac rehabilitation programs, Adherence to secondary preventive measures, Acute coronary syndrome, More intensive cardiac rehabilitation program in less time

Brief summary

To determine if an intensive cardiac rehabilitation program with periodic reinforcements improve the compliance/adherence to secondary preventive measures (physical exercise, mediterranean diet, tobacco abstinence, pharmacological treatment) after an acute coronary syndrome with or without ST segment elevation versus an standard cardiac rehabilitation program

Interventions

OTHERIntensive cardiac rehabilitation program in less time

2 weeks, 5 days a week, and reinforcement sessions at 3, 6 and 9 months

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Signed informed consent * Equal or older 18 years old * Acute coronary syndrome with or without ST elevation within last two months * Being able to do physical exercise * Being able to understand the educative sessions * Being able to understand patient information in the consent form

Exclusion criteria

* Hemodynamic instability * Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) \< or = 35% * Heart failure class III -IV (New York Heart Association (NYHA) Functional Classification) * Refractory angina * Any pathology for which physical exercise is not indicated

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Adherence to physical exercise	baseline-12 months	Assessed in Metabolic Equivalents of Task (METS) from baseline by ergometry
Adherence to Mediterranean diet	baseline-12 months	Assessed by Mediterranean diet adherence questionnaire (Modified Trichopoulou A,)
Tabacco abstinence	baseline-12 months	Assessed by cooximetry (less dan 10 ppm)
Number of participants reporting compliance with prescribed treatments	baseline-12 months	Patient-reported answers form the investigator

Countries

Spain

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 26, 2026