NCT05641662Recruiting
Effects of Exergaming to Reduce Sedentary Time in Inactive Patients With Heart Failure
Heart-eXg Study: Effects of Exergaming to Reduce Sedentary Time in Inactive Patients With Heart Failure: An International Multi-center, Randomized, Parallel-group Study
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 10 Mar 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The goal of this to determine the effect of tailored exergaming for inactive patients with heart failure to reduce their sedentary time, improve their daily physical activity, exercise capacity, decrease frailty and improve health-related quality of life. Participants will, on a background of standard guideline-directed medical therapy patients, be randomised to tailored activity advice (control) or the Heart-Exergame (Heart-eXg) intervention for a period of 3 months. Patients randomised to the Heart-eXg group will receive an exergame with feedback and tailoring to adapt the exergaming advice. Patients will also be able to play with a person in their own network.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 750 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 17 May 2022
- Start date
- 16 May 2022
- Primary completion date
- 31 Dec 2026
- Lead sponsor
- Linkoeping University
- Diseases
- Heart failure
- NCT number
- NCT05641662
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 750
- From 16 May 2022 to the primary completion date, 31 Dec 2026
- 12 sites in 4 countries
- 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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Other illness
- Unable to use an exergame due to visual, hearing, cognitive impairment assessed by HF nurse or cardiologist.
- Co-morbidity that hinders benefitting for this form of exercise (history of stroke, severe cognitive dysfunction, or a life expectancy shorter than 6 months).
Other
- Not being able to perform the 6-minute walk test.
- Not being able or willing to wear an activity monitor.
- Currently included in a rehabilitation program
- Lack of willingness to play an exergame.
Who the study is looking for
- Diagnosed with symptomatic HF (NYHA II-IV) as diagnosed by cardiologist, (independent of Ejection Fraction: Patients with a preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), mid-range ejection fraction (HFmrREF) or reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) can be included.
- Clinically stable
- Physically inactive
- Older than 18 years, there is no upper age limit,
- Speak/understand the language of the country where the study is taking place.
- Wanting to use a smartphone for the study (if patients do not have a smartphone, they can borrow it from the study team for the duration of the study)
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (12)
Sites in registry order. Save your city in your profile to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hospital del Mar Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Barcelona | Spain | Active, not recruiting |
| Hospital De Bellvitge Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Barcelona | Spain | Recruiting |
| Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Barcelona | Spain | Recruiting |
| Xarxa Assistencial Universitaria Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Manresa | Spain | Recruiting |
| INCLIVA Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Valencia | Spain | Recruiting |
| Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Porto | Portugal | Recruiting |
| Jönköping Hospital Rydhov Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Jönköping | Sweden | Recruiting |
| Kalmar Länssjukhuset Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kalmar | Sweden | Terminated |
| Linkoping University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Linköping | Sweden | Recruiting |
| Primary Health Care Centers Östergötland Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Norrköping | Sweden | Recruiting |
| Vrinnevisjukhuset Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Norrköping | Sweden | Recruiting |
| P. J. Safarik University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Košice | Slovakia | Recruiting |
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