NCT03180320Recruiting
Baduanjin-eight-silken-movement With Self-efficacy Building for Patients With Chronic Heart Failure (BESMILE-HF Study)
Effect of an Exercise-based Cardiac Rehabilitation Program 'Baduanjin-eight-silken-movement With Self-efficacy Building' for Patients With Chronic Heart Failure in Guangzhou, China (BESMILE-HF Study)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 18 May 2025 · Not updated for over 12 months - ask the site whether it is still open
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Chronic heart failure (CHF) is a major and growing public health problem and poses economic burden on the society. There is a need for a safe, equipment-free, low-cost, and easily implemented exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation program for CHF patients in China. Baduanjin exercise, translated as 'eight silken movements', is one of the most common forms of traditional Chinese exercise and it could have value to be integrated into a exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation program for CHF patients, together with education, evaluation and consultancy. Accordingly, the BESMILE-HF program applying the Baduanjin exercise as the central component, has been developed in Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine which is one of the largest hospitals of Chinese medicine in China. This project is to evaluate the efficacy and acceptability of BESMILE-HF program in patients with CHF in China, and it will be based on a randomized controlled trial and a qualitative study.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 150 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 2 Jun 2017
- Start date
- 22 Oct 2018
- Primary completion date
- 31 Dec 2025
- Lead sponsor
- Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Diseases
- Heart failure
- NCT number
- NCT03180320
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 150
- From 22 Oct 2018 to the primary completion date, 31 Dec 2025
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- history of cardiac surgery, cardiac resynchronization therapy, or intracardiac defibrillation within the previous 3 months;
Other illness
- Patients who have serious acute or chronic organic disease or mental disorders
- history of cardiac arrest within 1 year;
- history of peripartum cardiomyopathy, hyperthyroid heart disease, primary pulmonary hypertension;
- current regular Baduanjin or current participation in a conventional cardiac rehabilitation program
Other
- patients who have contraindications to cardiopulmonary test
- patients who have contraindications to exercise training
- inability to perform a bicycle stress test;
- severe cognitive dysfunction precluding informed consent or understanding of exercise concepts;
- current participation in another trial.
Who the study is looking for
- aged 18 years or above
- diagnosed with chronic heart failure
- clinically stable as defined as symptoms and signs that have remained generally unchanged for at least 1 month
- NYHA functional class II or III
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Guangzhou | China | Recruiting |
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