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Table 1 World Health Organization Trial Registration Data Set

From: Supervised pulmonary hypertension exercise rehabilitation (SPHERe): study protocol for a multi-centre randomised controlled trial

Data category

Information

Primary registry and trial identifying number

ISRCTN10608766

Date of registration in primary registry

18th March 2019

Secondary identifying numbers

REC reference: 19/WM/0155

NIHR HTA reference: 17/129/02

Source(s) of monetary or material support

NIHR Health Technology Assessment grant

Primary sponsor

UHCW NHS Trust

University Hospital

Clifford Bridge Rd., Coventry CV2 2DX

Tel: 02476 966,195

Email: R&DSponsorship@uhcw.nhs.uk

Secondary sponsor(s)

n/a

Contact for public queries

SPHERe Resource

Warwick Clinical Trials Unit

Tel: 02476150285

Email: sphere@warwick.ac.uk

Contact for scientific queries

Dr Gordon McGregor

Warwick Clinical Trials Unit

Tel: 02476150285

Email: gordon.mcgregor@warwick.ac.uk

Public title

Supervise exercise rehabilitation for people with pulmonary hypertension

Scientific title

Supervised Pulmonary Hypertension Exercise REhabilitation (SPHERe): a multi-centre randomised controlled trial

Countries of recruitment

England

Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) (groups 1–5)

Intervention(s)

Intervention group: 1) Individual assessment and exercise familiarisation, 2) Supervised out-patient exercise programme, 3) Psychosocial and motivational support; and education, 4) Guided home exercise plan.

Control intervention: Best practice usual care

Key inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion: Adults (18+) with confirmed PH (groups 1 to 5), clinically stable, WHO functional class II, III or IV, fluent in spoken English, travelling distance of a SPHERe centre, ability to provide informed consent.

Exclusion: Absolute contra-indications to exercise, PH-related complications, or comorbidities severe enough to prevent attendance at a SPHERe centre, or exercise, mental health issue preventing engagement with trial procedures, previous randomisation in SPHERe, pregnant at time of recruitment

Study type

Type: Pragmatic, interventional, multi-centre

Allocation: randomised

Assignment: parallel

Masking: outcomes assessors, chief investigator, statistician

Date of first enrolment

15th January 2020

Target sample size

382

Recruitment status

Recruiting

Primary outcome(s)

Incremental shuttle walk test at four months

Key secondary outcomes

At 4 and 12 months: Six-minute walk test, Cambridge Pulmonary Hypertension Outcome Review, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, Generalised self-efficacy scale, Fatigue Severity Scale, WHO functional class, Medication use, Time to clinical worsening, Hospital admissions, Adverse events, All-cause mortality, EQ-5D-5 L, Health and care resource use.

At 12 months: Semi-structured interviews with participants and practitioners