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A randomized trial of the addition of home-based exercise to specialist heart failure nurse care: the Birmingham Rehabilitation Uptake Maximisation study for patients with Congestive Heart Failure (BRUM-CHF) study

Author: Jolly, K. Country/countries: United Kingdom Number of patients participating in the study: 169 This study was focused on patients living with Heart Failure
Intervention analysed in the study: Usual Care Plus Intervention components: UCP
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Setting of implementation: Home-care, Outpatient care (hospital) Professionals delivering the intervention: Nurses Targeted self-management behaviours: Medication use and adherence, Self-monitoring
Intervention analysed in the study: Monitoring and action-based behavioural techniques Intervention components: E+MT+AB
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Setting of implementation: Home-care, Outpatient care (hospital) Professionals delivering the intervention: Nurses Targeted self-management behaviours: Medication use and adherence, Physical activity /exercise, Self-monitoring

Outcomes measured in the study

Outcome Measure Tool
Exercise capacity (including effort test) Exercise capacity Incremental Shuttle Walking Test (ISWT)
Exercise capacity (including effort test) Exercise capacity N/A
Hospital admissions HF-related hospital admissions N/A
Mortality HF-related mortality N/A
Quality of life Quality of life N/A
Quality of life Quality of life EuroQoL (EQ-5D-5L) - generic HRQoL

Patient characteristics

Age: 67.96 years (+/- a standard deviation of 12.5) Gender: N/A Time since diagnosis of Heart Failure: N/A Severity of the disease: N/A Multi-morbidity: N/A
  • Number of co-morbidities: N/A

Level of health literacy: N/A
  • Tool: N/A

Socio-economic characteristics: N/A

Risk of Bias of this study

Outcome Random sequence generation Allocation concealment Blinding performance Blinding detection objective outcomes assessment Attrition incomplete outcome Incorrect statistical methods Recruitment bias Selective outcome reporting
Exercise capacity (including effort test) - Exercise capacity
Exercise capacity (including effort test) - Exercise capacity
Hospital admissions - HF-related hospital admissions
Mortality - HF-related mortality
Quality of life - Quality of life
Quality of life - Quality of life

Other publications associated with this study

Home-based exercise rehabilitation in addition to specialist heart failure nurse care: design, rationale and recruitment to the Birmingham Rehabilitation Uptake Maximisation study for patients with congestive heart failure (BRUM-CHF): a randomised control Link: 10.1186/1471-2261-7-9.