Improving Health Status in COVID-19 Long-Hauler
For patients and families
In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Activity Coaching Programme, Standard medical care and leaflet education.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Post COVID-19 Condition. Basic parameters: from 18 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
- Spain
- 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
Improving Health Status in COVID-19 Long-Hauler Through an Activity Coaching Programme: a Randomized Control Trial
Overview
This randomized clinical trial investigates the effects of a distance physical activity coaching program on the health of COVID-19 long-hauler. The study evaluates the impact of individualized coaching interventions to improve participants' physical activity and quality of life.
Interventions
- Other Activity Coaching Programme
The intervention will consist of individualized physical activity coaching sessions, which will take place twice a week for 8 weeks. These sessions will focus on encouraging progressive and personalized physical activity according to each participant's ability. The sessions will also include relaxation techniques, targeted ventilation and strategies to improve activity management. - Other Standard medical care and leaflet education
In addition to standard medical care, patients assigned to this group received a leaflet with information about the main post COVID-19 condition symptoms. This is a control group that was not controlled or monitored by a therapist.
Primary outcome measures
- IPAQ (International Physical Activity Questionnaire) [Time frame: Baseline and at 8 weeks at the end of the intervention]
- EQ-5D (EuroQol-5 Dimensions) [Time frame: Baseline and at 8 weeks at the end of the intervention]
- PROMIS (Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System) [Time frame: Baseline and at 8 weeks at the end of the intervention]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Patients of both sexes.
- Agreed to participate.
- Post COVID-19 condition patients meeting the WHO definition for this disease.
- Sedentary patients according to the cut-off point of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ).
Exclusion criteria
- Pulmonary, cardiac, neurological, vascular, or orthopaedic pathologies that could limit the execution of the evaluation and intervention.
- Cognitive impairment that prevented them from understanding and answering the questionnaires.
- Patients suffering from a reinfection with SARS-CoV-2.
- Patients with a history of severe or critical COVID-19 disease severity.
- Patients participating in other studies.
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
- Single blind
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
Study locations
Spain · 1 center
- Faculty of Health Sciences. University of Granada — Granada
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06679218 · DF0102UG