Chair-based and Standard Exercise Programs in People With COPD
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Standard Exercise Program, Chair-based Exercise Program.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: COPD, Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Exercise. Basic parameters: 18 years — 75 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Comparison of the Effectiveness of Chair-based and Standard Exercise Programs in People With COPD
Overview
Patients who are diagnosed with COPD by a pulmonology specialist and referred to pulmonary rehabilitation will be included in the study. Cases that meet the inclusion criteria will be randomized and divided into two groups, standard exercise program group (SGr) and chair-based exercise. program group will be called (ChGr). While standard exercises will be given to SGr, chair-based exercises will be applied to ChGr. All evaluation and initial training sessions of the cases will be held in the hospital. Apart from this, they will be asked to do their exercises at home with the exercise videos that will be sent to them. In order to ensure that home exercises are performed completely and correctly, 2 sessions of online simultaneous exercise training will be provided with a physiotherapist via videoconference on a smartphone, and exercise follow-ups will be carried out by calling once a week. The program duration is 8 weeks, 5 days a week.
Interventions
- Other Standard Exercise Program
The program content consists of breathing exercises, upper and lower extremity strengthening with theraband and self-walking. Chest, abdominal and lateral basal breathing exercises will be performed 10 times each. Resistance exercises will be performed as strengthening exercises for the major muscle groups of the upper and lower extremities using medium-hard theraband. Patients will be asked to walk 30 minutes a day on flat ground at 60% workload, for periods calculated according to the 6-minute - Other Chair-based Exercise Program
The program content consists of breathing exercises and chair-supported exercises. Chest, abdominal and lateral basal breathing exercises will be performed 10 times each. Chair exercises are given in the exercise brochure. Exercises are performed with a chair support or sitting on a chair. In addition, patients will be asked to walk 30 minutes a day on flat ground at 60% workload, for periods calculated according to the 6-minute walk test results (land-based walking).
Primary outcome measures
- Exercise capacity assesment [Time frame: Change from baseline at 2 months]
Secondary outcome measures (8)
- Dyspnea evaluation [Time frame: Change from baseline at 2 months]
- Respiratory muscle strength measurement [Time frame: Change from baseline at 2 months]
- Peripheral muscle strength measurement [Time frame: Change from baseline at 2 months]
- Evaluation of quality of life [Time frame: Change from baseline at 2 months]
- Evaluation of fatigue [Time frame: Change from baseline at 2 months]
- Psychological status assessment [Time frame: Change from baseline at 2 months]
- Physical activity level assesment [Time frame: Change from baseline at 2 months]
- Pulmonary function tests (PFTs) [Time frame: Change from baseline at 2 months]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Being between the ages of 18-75 years
- Having a diagnosis of COPD diagnosed according to clinical diagnostic criteria according to the American Thoracic and European Respiratory Societies (ATS-ERS).
- Presence of dyspnea on exertion
- Stable clinical status at inclusion without infection or exacerbation in the previous 4 weeks \*Having smart phone usage skills
Exclusion criteria
- Patients with severe comorbid diseases, unstable coronary artery disease, collagen vascular diseases and requiring high-flow oxygen therapy (˃ 3-4 L\\min).
- A history of exertional syncope or the presence of any comorbidities (such as severe orthopedic or neurological deficits or unstable heart disease) that preclude exercise training.
- Having participated in a pulmonary rehabilitation program within the last 12 months.
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
Study locations
Turkey (Türkiye) · 1 center
- Yedikule Chest Disease Hospital — Istanbul
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06201299 · COPD_Chair exercises