Please select the arm or intervention descriptions that belong to the clinical trial below.
Title: A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Home-based Training With Telemonitoring Guidance Versus Center-based Cardiac Rehabilitation in Patients With Coronary Heart Disease: the TRiCH-study
Brief Summary: Cardiovascular diseases are the main cause of death worldwide. Aerobic fitness is related to long-term survival and a reduction in mortality and recurrent nonfatal myocardial infarction in subjects with cardiovascular disease. However, the majority of cardiac patients do not engage in enough physical activity to obtain benefits or in the long-term struggle to maintain a physically active lifestyle. There is a need for innovative rehabilitation methods aiming at increasing longer-term adherence and hence more sustained effects on health related physical fitness. One strategy might be the use of home-based training in combination of telemonitoring guidance. Therefore, the main objective of this randomized controlled clinical trial is to compare the longer-term (=1 year) effects of a 3-month supervised center-based rehabilitation program with a patient-tailored home-based cardiac rehabilitation program with telemonitoring guidance in CAD patients (phase III). The primary outcome measure is physical fitness. It is hypothesized that patients randomized to a home-based training program with telemonitoring guidance will demonstrate higher levels of physical activity at one year of follow-up, resulting in higher levels of physical fitness, compared to patients who have been enrolled to the supervised center-based cardiac rehabilitation program or control group. Ninety patients will be randomized to Home-based training, a center-based cardiac rehabilitation program or an advice only group (= control group). Assessment will be performed at baseline, immediately at completion of the intervention and at one-year of follow-up and will include measurements of exercise tolerance, cardiovascular risk factors, physical activity, muscle strength, endothelial function, health-related quality.


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A: Arm Label: Center-based cardiac rehabilitation; Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Behavioral: Center-based cardiac rehabilitation | Arm Label: Home-based training with telemonitoring guidance; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: Home-based training with telemonitoring guidance | Arm Label: Control; Type: NO_INTERVENTION; Interventions: N/A | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Center-based cardiac rehabilitation; Assigned to Arm(s): Center-based cardiac rehabilitation | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Home-based training with telemonitoring guidance; Assigned to Arm(s): Home-based training with telemonitoring guidance
B: Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: multifactorial continued educational - behavioural programme; Assigned to Arm(s): N/A
C: Arm Label: Exercise; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: Exercise | Arm Label: Control; Type: NO_INTERVENTION; Interventions: N/A | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Exercise; Assigned to Arm(s): Exercise
D: Arm Label: 1; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: Rehabilitation in institution | Arm Label: 2; Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Behavioral: Rehabilitation at home, Behavioral: Out-patient rehabilitation at the hospital | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Rehabilitation in institution; Assigned to Arm(s): 1 | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Rehabilitation at home; Assigned to Arm(s): 2 | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Out-patient rehabilitation at the hospital; Assigned to Arm(s): 2

Answer: A