E-Rehabilitation – an Internet and mobile phone based tailored intervention to enhance self-management of Cardiovascular Disease: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

BMC Cardiovascular Disorders

Silje C Wangberg¹  Konstantinos Antypas¹ 

[1]Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, N-9037, Norway

关键词: Physical activity;    Self-management;    Mobile-based;    Internet-based;    EHealth;    Cardiovascular disease;    Cardiac rehabilitation;    Tailoring;   

Others  :  1084795
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2261-12-50

 received in 2012-05-21, accepted in 2012-06-25,  发布年份 2012

【 摘 要 】

Background

Cardiac rehabilitation is very important for the recovery and the secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease, and one of its main strategies is to increase the level of physical activity. Internet and mobile phone based interventions have been successfully used to help people to achieve this. One of the components that are related to the efficacy of these interventions is tailoring of content to the individual. This trial is studying the effect of a longitudinally tailored Internet and mobile phone based intervention that is based on models of health behaviour, on the level of physical activity and the adherence to the intervention, as an extension of a face-to-face cardiac rehabilitation stay.

Methods/Design

A parallel group, cluster randomized controlled trial. The study population is adult participants of a cardiac rehabilitation programme in Norway with home Internet access and mobile phone, who in monthly clusters are randomized to the control or the intervention condition. Participants have access to a website with information regarding cardiac rehabilitation, an online discussion forum and an online activity calendar. Those randomized to the intervention condition, receive in addition tailored content based on models of health behaviour, through the website and mobile text messages. The objective is to assess the effect of the intervention on maintenance of self-management behaviours after the rehabilitation stay. Main outcome is the level of physical activity one month, three months and one year after the end of the cardiac rehabilitation programme. The randomization of clusters is based on a true random number online service, and participants, investigators and outcome assessor are blinded to the condition of the clusters.

Discussion

The study suggests a theory-based intervention that combines models of health behaviour in an innovative way, in order to tailor the delivered content. The users have been actively involved in its design, and because of the use of Open-Source software, the intervention can easily and at low-cost be reproduced and expanded by others. Challenges are the recruitment in the elderly population and the possible underrepresentation of women in the study sample. Funding by Northern Norway Regional Health Authority.

Trial registration

Trial registry http://www.clinicaltrials.gov webcite: NCT01223170.

【 授权许可】

   
2012 Antypas and Wangberg; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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