Implementation and Evaluation of Telemedicine in Cardiac Rehabilitation

Condition(s) studied

Investigational drug(s) / intervention(s)

Cardiac telerehabilitation (video consultation and home monitoring): Patients with cardiac disease and earlier experiences with cardiac rehabilitation, family members, and nurses in the Departments of Cardiology at Amager and Hvidovre Hospital will be invited to work in a partnership and through a course of innovative co-creative workshops. It is recommended that usability studies have 5-15 participants, which is why we plan to enroll 3 cardiac patients, 3 relatives and 3 nurses from the outpatient clinic. Through the workshops, a rehabilitation program offering cardiac telerehabilitation will be co-created to comply with the preferences and perspectives of patients and family members and nurses from the outpatient clinic. Through these workshops we will learn which important components and elements should be prioritized when offering cardiac telerehabilitation (how, when, and why?).

Study summary

The overall aim is to develop and test the effect of a tailored patient and family focused cardiac tele rehabilitation intervention on health literacy by comparing it to standard care. Furthermore, to evaluate health-related quality of life, family support, and how the patients experience the communication and relationship with outpatient clinic nurses.

Eligibility

Primary outcome measure(s)

• Health Literacy Questonnaire — 3 months
  Health literacy is investigated through instruments such as the Health Literacy Questionnaire (HQL). The HLQ contains 44 qustions that cover nine conceptually distinct areas of Health Literacy. Response options for each scale are determined by the content and nature of the items. For scale 1-5 four point ordinal response options are used (strongly disagree, disagree, agree and strongly agree), while for scales 6-9 five-point ordinal response options are used (cannot do, very difficult, quite difficult, quite easy and very easy). HLQ scale scores are calculated as unit-weighted sums of the constituents items averaged by the number of items in the scale such that the nominal range of the scale scores are 1-4 for scale 1-5 and 1-5 for scale 6-9. A low score means worse outcome and a high score means better outcome.

Trial sites (1)

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