Does Pulmonary Rehabilitation Change The Self-Selected And Maximum Sustainable Walking Speed In Patients With Symptomatic Lung Disease?
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 64
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- 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
研究概览
简要总结
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.
详细描述
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.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Na
- 干预模型
- Single Group
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Patients referred to pulmonary rehabilitation with symptomatic chronic lung disease
排除标准
- •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
结局指标
主要结局
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
时间窗: 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
时间窗: Pre and post pulmonary rehabilitation
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Roger Goldstein
Directory Respiratory Medicine
West Park Healthcare Centre