Utilization of Physical Activity Recommendations Among Patients of Cardiovascular Healthcare Centres in Eastern Slovakia

The trial will compare the utilization of physical activity recommendation between the standard lifestyle informative procedure and the digital training and decision system informative procedure. We hypothesize that a higher rate of compliance between seven-day exercise report and physical activity recommendations will be observed in the experimental group compared with three-months waiting group. The goal is to recruit patients with a stable diagnosis, clinically defined as sufficiently healthy to participate in an optimized (safe and monitored) exercise programme. Based on the experience with similar projects completed on Cardiovascular Health Centres (CHC) expected attrition rate is 25%. Such a value and 400 participants as a target recruitment number still allows to keep 150 participants in both groups and a power of 80% to detect the differences between groups and across the time at an α level of 0,05 (two-tailed). The trial will be supervised by a Data Safety and Monitoring Board consisting of one independent, internationally recognized clinical researcher, one representative (cardiologist) from each cooperating Cardiovascular Healthcare Centre as an advisor and experts in health psychology, exercise psychology, trial management and exercise physiology. The Board will be the policy and decision-making authority of the trial.