Improving Physical Activity in Rehabilitation (IPAiR)
Research type
Research Study
Full title
A Single-Centre, Feasibility Study to Promote Physical Activity Uptake and Adherence in Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation
IRAS ID
226025
Contact name
Eleanor Whittaker
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Duration of Study in the UK
2 years, 2 months, 30 days
Research summary
Cardiac rehabilitation is a programme of exercise and health advice for people recovering from heart disease. Pulmonary rehabilitation is a similar programme for people with chronic lung disease. For both groups of patients, taking part in rehabilitation can lead to improvements in health and well-being. However, only 30% of patients complete their agreed rehabilitation programme. This costs the NHS millions of pounds every year.
This project aims to investigate whether a motivational based intervention will enable staff to encourage more patients to take part in physical activity (PA). Staff will be trained with the new communication skills and will then deliver the rehabilitation programme. The session content will not change, just the way in which staff speak to patients.
This will be a two-phase study. Phase A will collect patient and staff feedback about the current rehabilitation programme, before using this information to develop and pilot the intervention. Phase B will then assess the feasibility of the intervention within rehabilitation.
Participants agreeing to take part in the phase B will be required to complete an interview and questionnaire at three time points. Patients’ personal opinions of the programmes will be extremely important in discovering what can be done to improve rehabilitation for future participants.
The main objectives will be to look at whether the intervention increases the number of patients taking part in physical activity. We want to know how much physical activity patients take part in whilst they are in rehabilitation, as well as once they have left the programme. This is why we will be asking participants to be interviewed three and six months after they have finished their rehabilitation programme.
All data will be kept private and confidential.REC name
North West - Greater Manchester West Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
17/NW/0332
Date of REC Opinion
9 Jun 2017
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion