This qualitative study identifies specific capability, opportunity, and motivation factors necessary to enable exercise-related behavior change in older adults with HFpEF.
OBJECTIVES: To establish, through patient and public involvement (PPI) events, the exercise barriers, facilitators and preferences of people with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). DESIGN: : Community dwelling older adults with HFpEF. RESULTS: 24 people with HFpEF (n=16 female, 66%), 2 spouses and 2 people with chronic conditions participated in the PPI meetings and workshops. Multiple exercise-related capability (negative symptoms, functional ability, resilience and self-efficacy and knowledge and skill); opportunity (appealing components, optimal conditions, adequate support); and motivation factors (well-being, physical gains, goal achievement, sense of enjoyment) were identified as essential to facilitating change in exercise behaviours in people with HFpEF. CONCLUSIONS: This study provides insight into capability, opportunity and motivation conditions that people with HFpEF feel are necessary to enable them to engage in exercise-related behaviour change. This work extends previous post hoc work by moving beyond identification of broad influencers that may enable or impede exercise intervention engagement, to identify intervention conditions necessary to affect change.
Forsyth et al. (Sat,) studied this question.