Implementing Pulmonary Rehabilitation in Primary care: Feasibility, acceptability, and safety

niversity of Sydney0 sites91 target enrollmentDecember 1, 2022

Overview

No summary available.

Registry

who.int

Start Date

December 1, 2022

End Date

TBD

Last Updated

2 years ago

Study Type

Interventional

Sex

All

Sponsor

•Clinician participants:
•AHPRA registered physiotherapist or Exercise \& Sports Science Australia accredited exercise physiologist
•Working in private practice where:
•oAt least two staff (clinical or administrative) are present during assessments or group exercise sessions
•oThere is adequate space for group exercise (minimum 3 participants) to occur
•oAccessible for people with chronic respiratory disease
•Willing to provide intervention for part two of study (twice weekly PR for 8\-weeks)
•Have or be willing to obtain current CPR training prior to assessing any study participants
•Patient participants:
•Age greater than 18 years

•Clinician participants:
•Physiotherapists or AEPs with significant prior PR experience (more than one rotation as Level 1 clinician, or delivery of Lungs in Action)
•Physiotherapists or AEPs with post\-graduate cardiopulmonary qualifications
•Patient participants:
•Exacerbation of respiratory disease within 4 weeks prior to recruitment
•Completed PR in the past year
•Prescribed home supplemental oxygen or requiring supplemental oxygen for exercise (desaturates \< 80% SpO2 on field walking test)
•Medical conditions that contraindicate safe group exercise outside hospital setting (e.g. unstable cardiac disease, severe musculoskeletal impairments)
•Unable to provide informed consent