Physical Exercise Training Programme COPD in Primary care
- Conditions
- smokers lungchronic bronchitis and emphysema10024967
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON35671
- Lead Sponsor
- niversiteit Maastricht
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 104
COPD patients visiting their general practitioner because of dyspnoea, impaired exercise capacity and/or a reduced quality of life. COPD patients who have a clinical diagnosis of mild to moderate COPD (supported by FEV1/FVC ratio < 0,7 and FEV1 > 50% of predicted post-bronchodilator) and MRC-score >= 2. And not meeting the level of exercise performance as defined by the Dutch Standard of Healthy Physical Exercise.
Patients who already receive or have received a physical exercise training programme or rehabilitation therapy in the past year. Patients who have had respiratory tract infections within the last 8 weeks. Presence of serious co morbid conditions which would interfere with regular exercise training
- severe orthopaedic, muscular, or neurological disorders
- cardiovascular conditions liable to be aggravated by exercise
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
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