Can changing the way people with chronic lung disease think about breathlessness improve and sustain health outcomes?
- Conditions
- breathlessnessRespiratory - Chronic obstructive pulmonary diseasePublic Health - Health promotion/educationPhysical Medicine / Rehabilitation - Other physical medicine / rehabilitation
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12611000292976
- Lead Sponsor
- niversity of South Australia
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 120
People referred to Repatriation General Hospital to undertake the Comprehensive Pulmonary Rehabilitation (CPR) program will be eligible for inclusion in this study if they have a clinical diagnosis of COPD, intend to undertake the eight week CPR and have a forced expiratory volume (FEV1) < 80 percent predicted and best recorded ratio of FEV1 to forced vital capacity of < 70 percent (FEV1/FVC <70%).
Participants will be only be excluded from this RCT due to the presence of cognitive or memory impairments (Mini-Mental State Examination score < 23/30), have clinically unstable COPD or co-morbidities which are likely to render exercise unsafe (determined by respiratory physician based upon change in medication or symptoms over the past two months) or are currently registered for lung volume reduction surgery or lung transplantation (risk of withdrawal from RCT).
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The six minute walk test (6MWT) assesses function exercise capacity (metres walked during six minutes)[Baseline (one month prior to intervention), one, six and twelve months after completion of intervention];The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)[Baseline (one month prior to intervention), one, six and twelve months after completion of intervention]
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method