NCT06356454

Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Paediatric Cardiologists About Cardiac Rehabilitation in Children With Congenital Heart Disease

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 106 (actual)
• Sponsor: Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 32 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Despite significant clinical benefits and recommendations of clinical practice guidelines to refer patients for exercise and physical activity counselling in the capacity of cardiac rehabilitation (CR), CR is largely underutilised and not implemented effectively. Studies have reported that the reasons for the low implementation of CR are multifactorial at the healthcare system, physician and patient levels. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the knowledge, attitudes and practical applications of paediatric cardiologists regarding cardiac rehabilitation and specifically exercise and physical activity in children with congenital heart disease (CHD).

Conditions

• Physician's Role

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Questionnaire on knowledge, attitudes and practices of paediatric cardiologists about cardiac rehabilitation in children with congenital heart disease	Creating the questionnaire: The self-administered questionnaire was designed based on literature review. The questions of the questionnaire were based on the 3 main components of the World Health Organisation's Knowledge, Attitude and Practice framework. The questions were evaluated by experts in the field such as cardiologists working in paediatric cardiology. The questionnaire, which was finalised with the questions updated according to expert opinions, has 5 sections: * Section 1: Socio-demographic questions * Section 2: Questions on the level of knowledge about CR * Section 3: Questions on attitudes about CR * Section 4: Questions on Practices about CR

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-10-02
• Primary completion: 2025-12-17
• Completion: 2026-02-10
• First posted: 2024-04-10
• Last updated: 2026-02-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)