NCT07115589

Home-based Cardiovascular Rehabilitation in Young Patients With Congenital Heart Disease: the "Muscle Your Heart" Program

Impacts of Home-based Cardiovascular Rehabilitation on the Physical Fitness of Children, Adolescents and Young Adults With Congenital Heart Disease: the "Muscle Your Heart" Program

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 21 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University Hospital, Bordeaux · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Years – 25 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Standard cardiovascular rehabilitation is performed in a medical care and rehabilitation centre. However, it may not be adapted to the patient's profile and there are few medical care and rehabilitation centres specialized in pediatric cardiology. The objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of cardiovascular rehabilitation entirely at home on the physical fitness of young patients with congenital heart disease.

Detailed description

Young patients with congenital heart disease suffer from physical deconditioning \[1\], negatively impacting the quality of life \[2, 3\], due in particular to obstacles stated by the patient's social environment \[4, 5\]. For this, there is cardiovascular rehabilitation, however, it may not be adapted to the patient's profile and there are few specialized centres in France. In the sense, the QUALIREHAB program, tested in a randomized controlled trial, was created. This 3-month hybrid program (at the patient's home and in a medical care and rehabilitation centre), combining adapted physical activity, patient therapeutic education and psychosocial support, has demonstrated positive effects on quality of life, level of physical activity, knowledge of the disease, body mass index and mental health \[6\]. However, this program has limitations, including the need for a medical care and rehabilitation centre near the patient's home. This study, evaluating the impact of a 3-month cardiovascular rehabilitation program entirely at home, will improve this program by taking into account its limitations and will apply it to real life, without all the human, financial and material resources of a randomized controlled trial.

Conditions

• CHD - Congenital Heart Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Muscle Your Heart home-based program	2 one-hour sessions of adapted physical activity per week - HIIT and free adapted physical activity - 1 one-hour monthly therapeutic patient education session - A dedicated platform - Adapted physical activity educators - Dedicated education therapeutic nurses

Timeline

• Start date: 2026-01-01
• Primary completion: 2026-01-01
• Completion: 2026-01-01
• First posted: 2025-08-11
• Last updated: 2025-08-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France