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Baduanjin-eight-silken-movement With Self-efficacy Building for Patients With Chronic Heart Failure (BESMILE-HF Study)
Led by Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine · Updated on 2025-05-18
150
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
401 weeks
Total Duration
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AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
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.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Baduanjin-eight-silken-movement With Self-efficacy Building for Patients With Chronic Heart Failure (BESMILE-HF Study)
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Age 18 years or older
- Diagnosed with chronic heart failure
- Symptoms and signs stable for at least 1 month
- NYHA functional class II or III
You will not qualify if you...
- Contraindications to cardiopulmonary test
- Contraindications to exercise training
- Serious acute or chronic organic disease or mental disorders
- Cardiac surgery, resynchronization therapy, or intracardiac defibrillation within past 3 months
- Cardiac arrest within past 1 year
- History of peripartum cardiomyopathy, hyperthyroid heart disease, or primary pulmonary hypertension
- Unable to perform a bicycle stress test
- Severe cognitive dysfunction preventing informed consent or understanding
- Current regular Baduanjin exercise or participation in a cardiac rehabilitation program
- Currently participating in another clinical trial
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine
Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, 510120
Actively Recruiting
Research Team
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Weihui Lu
CONTACT
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Xiankun Chen
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How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
NONE
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Model
PARALLEL
Primary Purpose
TREATMENT
Number of Arms
2
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