Clinical Trial: Teledi@Log - Tele-rehabilitation of Heart Patients

Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Completed
Study Type: Interventional

Official Title: Tele-rehabilitation of Heart Patients

Brief Summary: The idea behind the Teledi@log consortium is to develop tele-rehabilitation concepts and technologies so that all types of heart disease patients, regardless of degree of severity, can be offered individual, customized and coordinated tele-rehabilitation across sectors. The project is innovative, breaking new ground in relation to existing national and international research projects in the area. The Teledi@log consortium sees its major task as developing and testing scenarios which can lead to a more coherent rehabilitation for heart patients in areas such as patient training, organization across the boundaries of the health system and using tele-rehabilitation technology. The Teledi@log consortium seeks to develop new tele-rehabilitation concepts which bring the patient closer to the health system and thereby promote the heart patient's rehabilitation, giving the patient and their families a more active role via new tele-rehabilitation technologies.The hypothesis of the study is that heart patients participating in a telerehabilitation program will have a higher quality of life compared to heart patients following traditional rehabilitation activities.

Detailed Summary:

The aims of the research project are:

To assess the heart patients' and family members' needs for rehabilitation in the health system

To assess the need for coordination of the rehabilitation effort in the health system

To develop tele-rehabilitation concepts and technologies for heart patients, family members and health professionals in the health sector

To promote an early, rapid and effective rehabilitation of heart patients to improve their daily life and working life.

To prevent re-hospitalization of heart patients through a more individualized and differentiated rehabilitation effort using tele-rehabilitation technologies.

To conduct a randomized study of a tele-rehabilitation concept using tele-rehabilitation technologies and to assess the clinical, technical, organizational and health-economic effects.

Sponsor: Aalborg University

Current Primary Outcome: Quality of life [ Time Frame: At inclusion (baseline), change from baseline at 3, 6 and 12 months ]

Original Primary Outcome: Same as current

Current Secondary Outcome:

• Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) [ Time Frame: At inclusion (baseline), change from baseline at 3, 6 and 12 months ]
  To measure the patients degree of anxiety and depression at baseline (inclusion), changes from baseline at 3, 6 and 12 months.
• Self-determination [ Time Frame: At inclusion (baseline), change from baseline at 3, 6 and 12 months ]
  Questionaires on self-determination will be used in order to get an impression of the patients perception on handling their disease at baseline(inclusion)and changes from baseline at 3, 6 and 12 months.
• Health outcome EQ 5 [ Time Frame: At inclusion (baseline), change from baseline at 3, 6 and 12 months ]
  To measure health outcome at baseline (inclusion, and changes from baseline at 3, 6 and 12 months.
• Health economical evaluation [ Time Frame: At inclusion (baseline), change from baseline at 3, 6 and 12 months ]
  An assessment of the economical perspective of the telerehabilitation programme will be performed at baseline (inclusion of patients) and changes from baseline at 3, 6 and 12 months.
• Interorganizational aspects of a telerehabilitation programme [ Time Frame: Cnanges during 2012-2014 ]
  Interorganiszational aspect of the crosssectional telerehabilitation programme will be explored through observations and qualitative interviews with healthcare professionals at baseline (start of the study) and changes from baseline will be identified in October 2013.
• Social media for telerehabilitation [ Time Frame: Changes within 3 months ]
  Patients use of social media during an rehabilitation process will be explored through interviews at baseline (inclusion) and changes from baseline at 3, 6 and 12 months will be identified.

Original Secondary Outcome:

• Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) [ Time Frame: At inclusion (baseline), change from baseline at 3, 6 and 12 months ]
  To measure the patients degree of anxiety and depression at baseline (inclusion), changes from baseline at 3, 6 and 12 months.
• Self-determination [ Time Frame: At inclusion (baseline), change from baseline at 3, 6 and 12 months ]
  Questionaires on self-determination will be used in order to get an impression of the patients perception on handling their disease at baseline(inclusion)and changes from baseline at 3, 6 and 12 months.
• Health outcome EQ 5 [ Time Frame: At inclusion (baseline), change from baseline at 3, 6 and 12 months ]
  To measure health outcome at baseline (inclusion, and changes from baseline at 3, 6 and 12 months.
• Health economical evaluation [ Time Frame: At inclusion (baseline), change from baseline at 3, 6 and 12 months ]
  An assessment of the economical perspective of the telerehabilitation programme will be performed at baseline (inclusion of patients) and changes from baseline at 3, 6 and 12 months.
• Interorganizational aspects of a telerehabilitation programme [ Time Frame: January 2013 (baseline) and change from baseline at October 2013 ]
  Interorganiszational aspect of the crosssectional telerehabilitation programme will be explored through observations and qualitative interviews with healthcare professionals at baseline (start of the study) and changes from baseline will be identified in October 2013.
• Social media for telerehabilitation [ Time Frame: At baseline ( inclusion) and changes from baseline at 3, 6 and 12 months ]
  Patients use of social media during an rehabilitation process will be explored through interviews at baseline (inclusion) and changes from baseline at 3, 6 and 12 months will be identified.

Information By: Aalborg University

Dates:
Date Received: December 12, 2012
Date Started: December 2012
Date Completion:
Last Updated: December 29, 2015
Last Verified: December 2015