Impacting child health outcomes in congenital heart disease: Cluster randomized controlled trial protocol of in-clinic physical activity counselling

Interactions with Home and Health Environments Discourage Physical Activity: Reports from Children with Complex Congenital Heart Disease and Their Parents

“…Enabling more accurate perceptions of their children’s lifestyles may increase critically important parental physical activity support. Current research is assessing the impact of sharing objective physical activity data with children with CCHD and their families [ 43 ].…”

A WeChat-Based Rehabilitation Platform for Children and Adolescents with Congenital Heart Disease to Promote Cardiac FITness (HeartFIT): Protocol for a Mixed-Methods Strategy from Evidence-Based Design to Pilot Study

“… ● Lack of consideration regarding system security and data privacy. Web-based platform CHEO ( www.cheoactive.ca ) 21 ● A unique log-in account ● Providing simple, low-cost activity ideas, suggestions and progressions for improving movement skills or physical fitness (counselling). ● Activities available to the child will be aligned with the child’s physical activity restrictions.…”

“…However, none of the included studies presented clear details on the design process or behavioral theory foundations of their tools; and only two of the studies mentioned stakeholder involvement during the tool development. 20 , 21 Another major gap highlighted by the review is that none of the studies performed usability testing for their specific tools, which might explain why end users did not find the web-based app to be a useful tool in the “Smart Heart” study. 23 , 24 The review results suggest that research into the use of digital health tools to promote cardiac fitness for children and adolescents with CHD is still in its infancy and that there is a need to develop an evidence-driven, user-friendly digital tool to facilitate cardiac rehabilitation for this population.…”