Home-based walking intervention improves walking distance in PAD: MOSAIC study
A new study published in the Journal of American Medical Association suggests that a home-based, walking exercise habit modification intervention, compared to standard care, resulted in enhanced walking distance at 3 months in persons with peripheral artery disease (PAD) with intermittent claudication.
Home-based walking exercise therapies for persons with peripheral artery disease (PAD) are advised, however evidence of their usefulness is equivocal. As a result, Lindsay M. Bearne and colleagues did this research. To compare the impact of a home-based, walking exercise behavior modification intervention administered by physical therapists to conventional treatment in persons with PAD with intermittent claudication.
Between January 2018 and March 2020, 190 persons with PAD with intermittent claudication were enrolled in a multicenter randomized clinical study at six hospitals in the United Kingdom; the final follow-up date was September 8, 2020. Participants were randomly assigned to either a walking exercise habit modification intervention administered by physical therapists trained in a motivational approach (n = 95) or standard care (n = 95). At the 3-month follow-up, the primary outcome was a 6-minute walking distance (minimal clinically important difference, 8-20 m).
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