Increasing Exercise Capacity of Patients With Heart Failure by Wii Gaming

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

605

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

September 30, 2013

Primary Completion Date

April 30, 2018

Study Completion Date

April 30, 2018

Conditions
Heart Failure
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Structured access to a Wii game computer (Wii)

Patients who are randomized to the Wii group will be introduced to the Nintendo Wii game computer in an introduction lesson of approximately two hours and the Wii will be installed at home. During the first three months after inclusion, patients will be phoned after 2, 4, 8, 12 weeks to discuss their experiences with the Wii or to solve possible problems

BEHAVIORAL

Motivational support only

The control group receives an protocolized exercise advice and telephone follow-up at 2, 4, 8 and 12 weeks

Trial Locations (10)

CA 92697

University of California, Irvine

Unknown

Center of Internal Medicine Elsterwerda, Elsterwerda

Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tikva

Villa delle Querce hospital, Nemi

Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht

Länssjukhuset Ryhov hospital, Jönköping

University hospital Linköping, Linköping

Vrinnevi Hospital, Norrköping

Nyköpings lasarett hospital, Nyköping

Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

The Swedish Research Council

OTHER_GOV

collaborator

The Swedish Heart and Lung Association

OTHER

collaborator

Swedish Heart Lung Foundation

OTHER

collaborator

Vardalinstitutet The Swedish Institute for Health Sciences

OTHER

collaborator

Medical Research Council of Southeast Sweden

OTHER_GOV

collaborator

Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research

OTHER

lead

Linkoeping University

OTHER_GOV

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