Feasibility and Preliminary Effects of the BESMILE-HF Program on Chronic Heart Failure Patients: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

Feasibility and Preliminary Effects of the BESMILE-HF Program on Chronic Heart Failure Patients: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

Aims: The Baduanjin Eight-Silken-Movements wIth Self-Efficacy building for Heart Failure (BESMILE-HF) program is a contextually adapted cardiac rehabilitation program. It uses a traditional Chinese exercise, Baduanjin, to solve the unmet demand of exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation programs due t...

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Main Authors: Xiankun Chen, Wei Jiang, Thomas P. Olson, Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg, Zehuai Wen, Weihui Lu, Gaetano Marrone
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
Subjects:
exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation
chronic heart failure
pilot randomized controlled trial
self-efficacy for exercise
Baduanjin exercise
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcvm.2021.715207/full

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