Sprint Interval Training in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
• Interventions: Behavioral: sprint interval training

• Registration Number: NCT03735615
• Lead Sponsor: Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Brief Summary

Exercise therapy is a cornerstone in the management of patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary disease (COPD), and supervised walking exercise three times a week over 12 weeks improves walking ability and quality of life. Despite this, very few patients exercise on a regular basis. The underuse of exercise in COPD patients can partly be explained by discomfort during exercise because it evokes dyspnea, and thereby explain lack of participation in exercise. If the goal is to offer the best medical therapy to these patients, new and effective exercise training methods must be explored and defined since exercise training is an important part of pulmonary rehabilitation.

Intention is to study a new training method called sprint interval training (SIT), which consists of high intensity bouts with very short duration. The idea behind SIT is to avoid the dyspnea associated with traditional endurance training, thus maximizing exercise power without excessive discomfort. The investigators will study training adaptations in patients with COPD and compare the results with age-matched controls.

It is expected that both COPD-patients and healthy elderly will improve exercise cycle time until exhaustion after SIT training, and also that the improvement will be larger in the healthy group due to higher absolute training intensity.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2018-11-07
• Study First Submitted QC: 2018-11-07
• Study First Posted: 2018-11-08
• Study Start: 2018-11-15
• Primary Completion: 2019-03-10
• Study Completion: 2019-03-10
• Status Verified: 2020-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-01-09
• Last Update Posted: 2020-01-13

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 20

Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

• having participated in a pulmonary rehabilitation program during the last 3 months.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
chronic obstructive lung disease	sprint interval training	-
healthy control	sprint interval training	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
exercise cycle time to exhaustion	3 weeks

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

St Olavs University Hospital; 🇳🇴 Trondheim, Norway