Clinical trial NCT02470143: a Bike Application to Support Cardiac Patient
Official title: Pilot Study, How a Bike Application Can Support Cardiac Patients in Their Rehabilitation Program?
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Coronary Artery Disease
Keywords: Human-computer interaction
Fear
Motivation
Usability
Lead sponsor: Hasselt University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Jessa Hospital
First posted: 2015-06-12
Enrollment: 75
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 70
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Low risk coronary artery disease patients that completed phase II of cardiac rehabilitation.

Brief summary: The pilot study will investigate the usability of a mobile cycling application in a cardiac patient population during a one month study period.

The application's effectiveness regarding ability to reduce fear and increase motivation to exercise will be assessed.

Detailed description: This pilot study investigates the use of a mobile cycling application for patients with a cardiac disease that was developed by the Expertise Centre for Digital Media of Hasselt University in collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine \& Life Sciences of Hasselt University. During the pilot study, the use of the cycling application and its impact on fear and motivation of patients with a cardiac disease during the rehabilitation is studied. The cycling application will be used on a smartphone, in combination with a wrist-worn heart rate monitor.

During the study, the patients will use the cycling application for one month, in which they can make use of the cycling application each time they are cycling outdoor in their home environment. Through questionnaires and interviews, the patients' experiences with respect to fear and motivation will be collected. Furthermore, the usability of the cycling application is evaluated through these questionnaires and interviews.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Patients with coronary artery disease for which they received a percutaneous coronary intervention, coronary artery bypass grafting or drugs only.
* Patients that have completed the standard cardiac rehabilitation program
* Patients who have access to a computer and a WiFi internet connection
* Patients that are able to go to the rehabilitation centre ReGo of Jessa Hospital
* Patients who signed the informed consent document

Exclusion Criteria:

* Patients with a history of VF, sustained VT and/or supraventricular tachycardia during the last 6 months before enrollment.
* Patients who due to cognitive, neurological and/or musculoskeletal constraints are unable to ride a bicycle.
* Patients with a pacemaker.
* Non-Dutch speaking patients
* Patients who simultaneously participate in another study

Primary outcomes:
measure: Impact on motivation
timeFrame: up to week 4
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Usability of the cycling application
timeFrame: Up to week 4
measure: Impact on fear
timeFrame: up to week 4
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Hasselt
country: Belgium
facility: Jessa Ziekenhuis
Study officials:
affiliation: Universiteit Hasselt/ Jessa ziekenhuis
name: Ines Frederix, drs.
role: STUDY_CHAIR
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