NCT06312111

Physical Activity and Various Aspects of Quality of Life in Patients With Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (Ph-PAH)

Assessment of Physical Activity and Various Aspects of Quality of Life in Patients With Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 48 (actual)
• Sponsor: Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Evaluate whether education, a simple doctor's recommendation to increase physical activity in inactive patients, and self-monitoring of physical activity using a pedometer were effective and beneficial for patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH)

Detailed description

Each patient was educated about the benefits of PhA in PAH on the initial visit. Patients wore pedometers (Omron HJ-321-E) for 2 weeks. After PhA assessment, the patients were contacted by a physician. Patients who walked \<5,000 steps per day were recommended to increase PhA, and patients who walked ≥5,000 steps per day were recommended to maintain PhA. Patients wore pedometers for 3 months until their next visit. The primary endpoint was the number of steps after 12 weeks of the study; the secondary endpoint was the 6-minute walk test distance (6MWD), quality of life (SF-36), acceptance of the disease, and anxiety and depression level (HADS).

Conditions

• Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
• Physical Inactivity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	recommendation to increase physical activity	education on the benefits of physical activity in PAH from the first visit and doctor's recommendation to increase physical activity above 5,000 steps a day in inactive patients and above 5,000 steps per person in active patients

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-04-22
• Primary completion: 2021-07-15
• Completion: 2022-07-17
• First posted: 2024-03-15
• Last updated: 2024-03-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Poland