Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Paediatric Cardiologists About Cardiac Rehabilitation in Children With Congenital Heart Disease

Physician's Role Clinical Trial

Official title:

Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Paediatric Cardiologists About Cardiac Rehabilitation in Children With Congenital Heart Disease

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06356454
• Other study ID #: KAPCON-CR
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Start date: June 2, 2024
• Est. completion date: December 2, 2025

Study information

• Verified date: April 2024
• Source: Karamanoglu Mehmetbey University
• Contact: Haluk Tekerlek
• Phone: +90-5355915009
• Email: haluktekerlek[@]gmail.com
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Despite significant clinical benefits and recommendations of clinical practice guidelines to refer patients for exercise and physical activity counselling in the capacity of cardiac rehabilitation (CR), CR is largely underutilised and not implemented effectively. Studies have reported that the reasons for the low implementation of CR are multifactorial at the healthcare system, physician and patient levels. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the knowledge, attitudes and practical applications of paediatric cardiologists regarding cardiac rehabilitation and specifically exercise and physical activity in children with congenital heart disease (CHD).

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 100
• Est. completion date: December 2, 2025
• Est. primary completion date: June 2, 2025
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 32 Years to 70 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• To be a paediatric cardiologist,
• Providing active service in patient diagnosis and treatment

Exclusion Criteria:

• Not providing active service in patient diagnosis and treatment despite being a paediatric cardiologist (administrative position, etc.).

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Heart Defects, Congenital
• Heart Diseases
• Physician's Role

Intervention

Other:
• Questionnaire on knowledge, attitudes and practices of paediatric cardiologists about cardiac rehabilitation in children with congenital heart disease
Creating the questionnaire: The self-administered questionnaire was designed based on literature review. The questions of the questionnaire were based on the 3 main components of the World Health Organisation's Knowledge, Attitude and Practice framework. The questions were evaluated by experts in the field such as cardiologists working in paediatric cardiology. The questionnaire, which was finalised with the questions updated according to expert opinions, has 5 sections: Section 1: Socio-demographic questions Section 2: Questions on the level of knowledge about CR Section 3: Questions on attitudes about CR Section 4: Questions on Practices about CR

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
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Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Karamanoglu Mehmetbey University

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	The score of Questionnaire on knowledge, attitudes and practices of paediatric cardiologists about cardiac rehabilitation in children with congenital heart disease	The scale created in this study does not have a minimum and maximum score due to its nature. Some questions in the scale are in yes/no format and some questions are in multiple choice format. For this reason, the results of the study will be given in the form of categorical or frequency tables in accordance with the scale questions. The questions consist of knowledge of physicians about CR, attitudes of physicians on CR, practices of physicians on CR and barriers faced by physicians for referring to CR and socio-demographic data of the responders.	10-15 minutes