Impact of Daily Stair Climbing on Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation in Heart Patients

NCT07693348 | Recruiting

• 1 other identifier: 2025-01
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 90
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The goal of this interventional study is to improve exercise capacity of patients following a standard rehabilitation program in Arras Hospital with stair climbing . Patients will be randomized in to 2 groups : intervention or control.

• Control group will follow standard program.
• Intervention group will follow standard program and stair climbing (2 floors, twice a day until the exit). Patients will complete questionnaires and tests before starting study and again at the end (approximately 10 days).

Conditions

Rehabilitation

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Evolution of number of repetitions on chair stand test

  Evolution of number of repetitions in 1 minute on chair stand test between entry and exit of study

  at 10 days or at time of study exit if the patient leaves earlier

Secondary Outcomes (5)

• Evolution of dyspnea

  at 10 days or at time of study exit if the patient leaves earlier

• Evolution of distance covered on 6-minute walk test

  at 10 days or at time of study exit if the patient leaves earlier

• Evolution of quality life score

  at 10 days or at time of study exit if the patient leaves earlier

• Evolution of muscle mass of lower limb

  at 10 days or at time of study exit if the patient leaves earlier

• Evolution of heart rate post exercise

  at 10 days or at time of study exit if the patient leaves earlier

Study Arms (2)

Standard program of rehabilitation

NO INTERVENTION

standard program of rehabilitation + stair climb

EXPERIMENTAL

Patients will follow standard program + 2 times a day, until exit service (excluding weekends), they will climb two floors of stairs (morning and afternoon, supervised by a therapist)

Other: stair climb

Interventions

stair climb OTHER

2 times a day, until exit service (excluding weekends), they will climb two floors of stairs (morning and afternoon, supervised by a therapist)

standard program of rehabilitation + stair climb

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Age ≥18 years
• Patients requiring cardiac rehabilitation admitted to the Eole unit
• Patients ability to walk at least 200 meters without technical assistance

You may not qualify if:

• Patient walking with an assistive device
• Patient with a contraindication to climbing stairs
• Pre-operative patient
• Patient with a pacemaker
• Patient with an implanted defibrillator

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Centre Hospitalier Arras: lead

Study Sites (1)

Arras general hospital

Arras, 62000, France

RECRUITING

Study Officials

• Marion FRERE

  Arras hospital Center

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Masking Details: in this study a physiotherapist from another department will be in charge of performing walking tests and chair stand tests for all patient before exit of study.
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Model Details: randomization into 2 groups : intervention and control

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: June 4, 2026
• First Posted: July 9, 2026
• Study Start: March 11, 2026
• Primary Completion: March 24, 2026
• Study Completion (Estimated): March 24, 2028
• Last Updated: July 9, 2026

Record last verified: 2026-06

Locations

FR (1)