Telerehabilitation in COPD

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: COPD
• Interventions: Behavioral: Application program for pulmonary rehabilitation

• Registration Number: NCT05053061
• Lead Sponsor: Izmir Dr Suat Seren Chest Diseases and Surgery Education and Research Hospital

Brief Summary

The prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in Turkey is 10%. Patients with COPD have a decreased physical capacity. Decreased physical activity in COPD patients causes an increase in all-cause mortality. Pulmonary rehabilitation contributes to increasing physical capacity and quality of life in COPD patients. However, a limited number of patients have access to pulmonary rehabilitation. Some of the patients drop out of pulmonary rehabilitation due to reasons such as transport difficulties, low social support, and low professional support. In addition, disruption of daily routine is one of the important reasons for this situation. Telerehabilitation can enable more patients to access pulmonary rehabilitation. Education and exercise programs can be followed with telerehabilitation in patients with COPD. An increase in exercise capacity and a decrease in dyspnea have been achieved with telerehabilitation in COPD patients.

Different technologies such as telephone, video conferencing or web sites can be used for telerehabilitation. Also, mobile phone was used to telerehabilitation. To make pulmonary telerehabilitation completely patient-based, we have developed an application suitable for smartphones. The application contains videos which showing how to perform pulmonary rehabilitation exercise videos, and it allows the participants to follow up compliance with pulmonary rehabilitation daily. The application will be downloaded to the smartphones of the participants, and it will be shown how to use the application. Participants will not be shown pulmonary rehabilitation exercises.

This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of telerehabilitation with the application program on physical capacity, quality of life, and dyspnea perception in COPD patients.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2021-08-25
• Study First Submitted: 2021-09-13
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-09-21
• Study First Posted: 2021-09-22
• Status Verified: 2024-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-10-12
• Last Update Posted: 2024-10-15
• Primary Completion: 2024-12-31
• Study Completion: 2025-01-31

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 21

Inclusion Criteria

• Age ≥ 18 years
• Being diagnosed with COPD
• Not have previously participated in pulmonary rehabilitation
• To able to use smartphone

Exclusion Criteria

• Under age 18
• Pregnancy
• Have previously participated in pulmonary rehabilitation
• Having any malignacy
• Having any disorder that limit exercise

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Telerehabilitation Arm	Application program for pulmonary rehabilitation	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
6-min walk test (6MWT)	8 weeks	exercise capacity

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Short Form-36 (SF-36)	8 weeks	Quality of life
St George's Respiratory Questionnaire	8 weeks

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

1University of Health Sciences Turkey, Dr Suat Seren Chest Diseases and Chest Surgery Training and Research Hospital, Intensive Care Unit; 🇹🇷 İzmir, Turkey