NCT06876441Recruiting
Effect of the Home-based Digital-assisted Dyadic Tai Chi (HDTC) Training Program Among Sedentary Individuals With HF and Their Caregivers: a Randomized Controlled Trial
A Randomized Controlled Trial to Evaluate the Effect of the Home-based Digital-assisted Dyadic Tai Chi (HDTC) Training Program Among Sedentary Individuals With Heart Failure (HF) and Their Caregivers.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 11 Mar 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The full scale RCT aims to assess the effectiveness of the HDTC training program in improving functional capacity, cardiac function and secondary outcomes among sedentary chronic heart failure (CHF) individuals, while simultaneously reducing care burden and improving other outcomes for their caregivers.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 256 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 10 Mar 2025
- Start date
- 1 Apr 2025
- Primary completion date
- Apr 2026
- Lead sponsor
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Diseases
- Heart failure
- NCT number
- NCT06876441
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 256
- From 1 Apr 2025 to the primary completion date, Apr 2026
- 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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Other illness
- HF individuals:
- plan to undergo surgery within the next 6 months
- have severe comorbidities, such as cancer, liver or kidney failure, or diagnosed psychiatric disorders
- plan to be admitted to a nursing home or other care facilities
- regularly practice Tai Chi or engaging in other forms of exercise in the past 3 months (at least 3 times per week, at least 20 minutes of regular exercise each time)
- currently participate in similar or related studies.
Other
- caregivers: · formal caregivers, such as nurses, will be excluded.
Who the study is looking for
- CHF individuals:
- aged 18 to 75 years
- diagnosed with CHF, regardless of the HF phenotype (HFrEF, HFmrEF, and HFpEF)
- categorized as NYHA class I, II or III
- 6MWD \>150 meters (mild to moderate HF)
- stable phase of disease in the past four weeks and capable of independently practice Tai Chi without any musculoskeletal disorders that may impede joint movement
- sit more than 8 h/d in the past month
- own a smartphone
- volunteer to participate and provide informed consent.
- caregivers:
- age ≥18 years old
- primary caregiver at home, who has emotional ties or social obligations with CHF individuals and provides daily care
- able to exercise Tai Chi without help
- volunteer to participate and provide informed consent.
Age in the registry: 18 years to 75 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Qingdao | China | Recruiting |
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