HEART Camp Connect -Promoting Exercise in Adults With Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorUniversity of Nebraska

About this trial

The goal of this study is to learn more about patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) and exercise. Investigators want to see if meeting with a coach in person or by video conference will help these patients exercise, feel better, and change markers in their blood. Participants will be randomly placed in one of three groups for 18 months. All groups will have access to a fitness center and be given a watch and heart rate monitor to wear during exercise. The usual care group (control group) will have access to exercise videos via the medical fitness center and will not meet with a coach. The HEART Camp group will exercise and meet with their coach in-person at the medical fitness center. The HEART Camp Connect group will have access to exercise videos via the medical fitness center and will meet with their coach via videoconferencing. All participants will take part in an exercise test and study training prior to being randomized. At four data collection time points, participants will wear an activity monitor for 7 days each, have their blood drawn, and answer questions related to heart failure and exercise. Participants will also wear a heart rate monitor when they exercise and fill out a daily exercise diary.

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

Diagnosis of heart failure with an ejection fraction greater than or equal to 50

Echocardiogram in prior 24 months

Stable pharmacologic therapy in the past 30 days

Any of the following evidence to confirm HFpEF - Score< 6 on Heavy Hypertensive Atrial Fibrillation, Pulmonary Hypertension, Elder, Filling Pressure algorithm, invasive hemodynamic evidence of HFpEF(i.e., elevated pulmonary wedge pressure), or a confirmed clinical diagnosis of HFpEF

Disqualifiers

Life-limiting illness precluding study completion

Clinical evidence of decompensated heart failure

Unstable angina or marked shortness of breath on exertion at less than 2 metabolic equivalents

Myocardial infarction, coronary artery bypass graft, or biventricular pacemaker in prior 6 weeks

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

  • HEART Camp
  • HEART Camp Connect

Treatment groups

300 Participants
are divided into 3 treatment groups

Sponsors and collaborators