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Register: ISRCTN
Last refreshed on: 12 February 2013
Main ID:  ISRCTN68886157
Date of registration: 10/06/2004
Primary sponsor: Department of Health (UK)
Public title: A randomised controlled trial of exercise rehabilitation in addition to specialist heart failure nurse intervention BRUM-CHF
Scientific title:
Date of first enrolment: Nov 1 2004
Target sample size: 169
Recruitment status: Completed/Not recruiting
URL:  http://isrctn.org/ISRCTN68886157
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Randomised controlled trial  
Countries of recruitment
United Kingdom
Contacts
Name: Kate  Jolly
Address:  Department of Public Health & Epidemiology Public Health Building University of Birmingham Edgbaston B15 2TT Birmingham United Kingdom
Telephone:
Email: C.B.Jolly@bham.ac.uk
Affiliation: 
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Patients referred to the specialist heart failure services, who have been admitted with heart failure or been New York Heart Association (NYHA) III within the previous year, with an ejection fraction of less than 40%
Exclusion criteria: No exclusion criteria provided

Age minimum:
Age maximum:
Gender:
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Heart failure
Intervention(s)
Intervention group: Six month structured exercise programme, predominantly home-based plus specialist heart failure nurse care.
Usual care group: Specialist heart failure nurse care.

Follow-up by postal questionnaire and clinical assessment occurs at 6 months and by postal questionnaire at 1 year.
Primary Outcome(s)
The primary outcome measure is the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire (MLwHF) Questionnaire.
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary outcome measures at six months are:
1. Composite of death or admission with heart failure or myocardial infarction
2. Admission with heart failure
3. Mortality (all-cause and vascular)
4. EuroQol questionnaire
5. Hamilton Anxiety and Depression Score (HADS)
6. Blood pressure
7. Self-reported physical activity
8. Distance walked on the Incremental Shuttle Walk Test (ISWT)

At 12 months the ISWT and blood pressure measurements are omitted.
Secondary ID(s)
N/A
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Department of Health (DH/BHF Heart Failure research Initiative) (UK)
Secondary Sponsor(s)
N/A
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