Does Pulmonary Rehabilitation Change Self-Selected And Maximum Sustainable Walking Speed In Patients With Lung Disease?

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Completed

• Conditions: COPD; Chronic Lung Disease
• Interventions: Other: pulmonary rehabilitation

• Registration Number: NCT00781183
• Lead Sponsor: West Park Healthcare Centre

Brief Summary

Exercise training has been shown to reduce breathlessness and improve the exercise tolerance of people with lung disease. However, the effect of exercise training on the walking speed selected by these people during day-to-day life is unknown. Furthermore,the investigator do not know if exercise training changes the maximum speed that these people can walk at for a long period of time. This study will examine the relationship between walking speed and walking endurance before and following exercise training in people with lung disease and contribute importantly to our understanding of how patients choose to walk in relation to their capabilities.

Detailed Description

Rationale: Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is considered a standard of care for patients with symptomatic lung disease. It has achieved strong evidence for reducing symptoms and improving exercise tolerance. Walking is the most common form of physical activity and most individuals need to walk in the course of their daily activities. Chosen walking speed is a good indicator of the debilitating effects of disease and improvement in usual walk speed has been associated with a substantial reduction in mortality in elderly subjects. Therefore, it is important for clinicians to understand how patients choose to walk in relation to their capabilities as well as to know how this relationship changes with PR.

The main purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between walking speed and walking endurance before and after PR.

Primary aim: to estimate the maximum walking speed that can be sustained for \> 24 min (i.e. maximum sustainable walking speed; MSWS) from the relationship between walking speed and walking time in patients with symptomatic lung disease.

Secondary aims: (i) to determine if chosen speed during the endurance walk test is different from the MSWS, (ii) to determine if MSWS and speed chosen for the endurance walk test changes in response to PR and, (iii) to measure the repeatability of endurance walk time (EWT), defined as the duration a patient can walk at a self-selected pace before that first need to stop and rest.

Significance: Walking is the most common form of physical activity. Chosen walking speed and the capacity to endure walking at different speeds can help quantify disability. Also, studies that examine the effect of PR on survival are not available. However, indirect evidence suggests that PR improves many of the risk factors associated with mortality in patients with COPD. This study will examine the effect of PR on the usual walking speed selected by individuals with symptomatic lung disease, which has been demonstrated to be a predictor of mortality in elderly individuals. Therefore, our study may contribute to the indirect evidence for the effects of PR on survival.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2008-10-27
• Study First Submitted QC: 2008-10-27
• Study First Posted: 2008-10-28
• Study Start: 2009-01
• Primary Completion: 2010-12
• Study Completion: 2010-12
• Status Verified: 2012-12
• Last Update Submitted: 2012-12-20
• Last Update Posted: 2012-12-21

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 64

Inclusion Criteria

• Patients referred to pulmonary rehabilitation with symptomatic chronic lung disease

Exclusion Criteria

• Co-morbid conditions that adversely affect exercise capacity or participation in a pulmonary rehabilitation program; inability to provide written informed consent; weaning doses of oral corticosteroids or methylxanthines

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
pulmonary rehabilitation	pulmonary rehabilitation	patients that are enrolled in pulmonary rehabilitation

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Endurance walk time (EWT) defined as the time a patient can walk at a self-selected speed until they first need to stop and rest	Pre and post pulmonary rehabilitation
The maximum sustainable walk speed (MSWS) defined as the maximum speed that a patient walk for at for > 24 minutes	Pre and post pulmonary rehabilitation

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

West Park Healthcare Centre; 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada