Strong Hearts: A Remote, App-Enabled, Exercise Program for Patients With Congenital Heart Disease (Strong Hearts App)

Strong Hearts: A Remote, App-Enabled, Exercise Program for Patients With Congenital Heart Disease

The overall goal of this program is to create a remote, mobile application enabled exercise program for patients with Congenital Heart Disease (CHD). Pilot trials will consist of a remote exercise program with app-embedded exercise modules designed to promote and encourage safe and healthy exercise habits across a range of CHD anatomies. This app-enabled program will allow for real time data collection integrating wearable devices, as well as compliance and safety monitoring to enhance research capabilities. The app-enabled program will be versatile and may be applied in the future to patients with non-cardiac conditions.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Repaired or unrepaired Congenital Heart Disease (CHD)

• Between ages 10 and 50, inclusive, at time of consent

• Android or Apple smartphone that meets the operating systems below with the ability to download applications from either Google Play or the Apple store

  • Android: 6.0 or higher
  • Apple: iPhone Operating System (iOS) 13 or higher

Exclusion Criteria:

• Physical or mental disabilities preventing exercise participation
• Uncontrolled systemic hypertension (symptomatic or greater than Stage 2 hypertension while on therapy)
• Poorly controlled arrhythmia
• Clinically unstable heart failure
• Known pregnancy at the time of enrollment