NCT07153874

The Research Aims to Study the Effectiveness of a Physical Exercise Program on Indicators of Quality of Life and Functionality: It Will be Applied at Home to People Undergoing Cardiac Surgery, in Phase II of Cardiac Rehabilitation

The Effectiveness of a Physical Exercise Program in the Person Undergoing Cardiac Surgery

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 76 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Universidade Católica Portuguesa · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to test the effectiveness of an physical exercise intervention in people after cardiac surgery, namely valve replacement and coronary artery bypass graft. The main question\[s\] it aims to answer are: • what is the influence of a physical exercise program on quality of life in people after cardiac surgery • what is the influence of a physical exercise program on functional status in people after cardiac surgery. Participants will be allocated to exepriemtal group and perform a physical exercise program during 12 weeks and the program is composed by aerobic and anaerobic exercise. They will be evaluated at the beginning, middle and in the end of the program. Researchers will compare the experimental and the control group to see the effects in quality of life and functional status.

Conditions

• Cardiac Surgery
• Rehabilitation Program
• Quality of Life
• Functional Status

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Physical exercise rehabilitation intervention	12 weeks of physical exercise intervention, including aerobic snd anaerobic exercise at home. 36 sessions of monitorized training with distance supervision.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-02-19
• Primary completion: 2024-06-10
• Completion: 2025-08-31
• First posted: 2025-09-04
• Last updated: 2025-09-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Portugal