Physical Activity as a crucial Patient Reported Outcome in COPD

Completed

Conditions: 10006436
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
COPD

Registration Number: NL-OMON34731

Lead Sponsor: niversitair Medisch Centrum Groningen

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Completed

Sex: Not specified

Target Recruitment: 55

Inclusion Criteria

Patients (males and females) with physician diagnosed COPD (confirmed by pulmonary function testing), across the various GOLD stages from mild to very severe COPD.
- age > 40 years
- adequate oral fluency to enable participation in an interview
- willing and able to provide written informed consent

Exclusion Criteria

- institutionalised patients (nursing home or psychiatric unit)
- patients with documented dementia or other mental impairment such that they are unable to provide informed consent or complete the required tasks
- patients in palliative care
- patients who don't speak and write the local or country language
- participants with major co-morbidities, which in the physician's opinion could have significant impact on physical activity. These include recent myocardial infarction, stroke, other cardiovascular conditions, rheumatologic disease (including arthritis and other musculoskeletal pain that affects their ability to exercise), neurological illness (including severe neuropathic pain that affects their ability to exercise), or traumatic injury, lung cancer, concurrent asthma, history of drug or alcohol abuse.

Study & Design

Study Type: Observational non invasive

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>The development of a conceptual model of physical activity and, subsequently,<br /><br>the development of a Patient Reported Outcome (PRO) to assess physical acticity<br /><br>in COPD patients.</p><br>

Secondary Outcome Measures