Self-management and Theory-based Rehabilitation Encouraging New Gateways to Healthy-Hearts

Brief summary (registry, in English)

The goal of this intervention is translate current behaviour change in to community cardiac rehabilitation programmes for people living beyond a heart attack. The main question it aims to answer is whether adding a lifestyle change programme promoted maintenance of physical activity changes will be maintained following a cardiac rehabilitation programme. The problem Guidelines recommend that coronary heart disease patients should be offered cardiac rehabilitation which includes exercise programmes, education, and ongoing support within both clinical and community settings. Cardiac rehabilitation programmes reduce the risk of death and illness, but it is likely that patients will stop exercising without enough support. New was to encourage coronary heart disease patients to stay active both during and after taking part in cardiac rehabilitation programmes are needed. The project Behaviour change techniques can encourage patients to stay active for longer. The aim of this project is to see whether behaviour change can encourage coronary heart disease patients taking part in community-based cardiac rehabilitation programmes to stay active for longer compared with patients receiving the standard cardiac rehabilitation programme. The benefits It is hoped that these methods will encourage more cardiac rehabilitation patients to stay physically active for longer and improve health. The results will provide more evidence on using behavioural change techniques in cardiac rehabilitation programmes and have the potential to benefit many patients with coronary heart disease throughout Northern Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom.

What you commit to

• Study type: Interventional
• Participants enrolled: 96
• From 1 Mar 2023 to the primary completion date, 26 Aug 2024
• 1 site in 1 country
• Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

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Who the study is looking for

Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

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Related publications

• Understanding participants' experiences of a behaviour change intervention within cardiac rehabilitation: A nested process evaluation within the STRENGTH randomised controlled trial.PLoS One · 2026 · PMID 42302056
• The STRENGTH Study: A cluster randomised controlled trial of the effect of a behaviour change intervention added to cardiac rehabilitation on physical activity adherence.PLoS One · 2026 · PMID 41875187