NCT05449652

Exercise Prescriptions for Patients With Cardiovascular Disease

Are Exercise Prescriptions for Patients With Cardiovascular Disease, Made by Physiotherapists, in Agreement With International Guidelines?

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 47 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hasselt University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: —

Summary

Physiotherapists are often confronted with patients with (elevated risk for) cardiovascular disease (CVD), even when this is not the primary indication for physiotherapy. Hence, physiotherapists should be able to provide evidence-based exercise advice to these patients, but this has not been assessed. The aim of this study was therefore to assess whether exercise prescriptions by physiotherapists to patients with CVD are in accordance with international recommendations.

Detailed description

In this prospective observational survey, forty-seven Belgian physiotherapists agreed to prescribe exercise intensity, frequency, session duration, program duration, and exercise type (endurance or strength training) for the same three patient cases. Exercise prescriptions were compared between clinicians and relations with clinician characteristics were studied. In addition, the agreement between physiotherapists' exercise prescriptions and those from international recommendations (based on a maximal score of 60/per case) was assessed.

Conditions

• Cardiovascular Diseases

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	To prescribe exercise prescription for CVD patients	To prescribe exercise intensity, frequency, session duration, program duration, and exercise type (endurance or strength training) for the same three patient cases

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-02-16
• Primary completion: 2022-04-30
• Completion: 2022-04-30
• First posted: 2022-07-08
• Last updated: 2022-07-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Belgium