NCT00705302

Patient Education in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) - Effect and Costs

A Randomised Controlled Trial of the Effect of a Patient Education Program for Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 88 (actual)
• Sponsor: Norwegian University of Science and Technology · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of this study is to determine the long term effect of a self-help group in a patient education program for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Detailed description

Pulmonary rehabilitation is aimed to increase the level of health of patients with COPD by increasing their self care ability. A recent updated systematic review concluded that evidence strongly supports respiratory rehabilitation as part of the spectrum of management of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Studies of pulmonary rehabilitation programs lasting up to 18 months show that effects are mainly maintained throughout the duration of the program. The long term effect, however, is mostly studied for programs of shorter durations. Some of the studies with shorter duration have found that the achieved benefit was lost or diminished during the follow up period, while others have found that the effect has been maintained up to 18 months. Our necessity in the rehabilitative field is to find strategies to maintain benefits during time.

Conditions

• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Group training with self-help group	Combined educational and exercise program for pulmonary rehabilitation, with (1) or without(2 a self-help group. The educational part consists firstly of two days with group meetings with information from medical doctor, pharmacist, psychologist, ergonomist, nurse, social worker, physiotherapist and a clinical nutritional physiologist. One more day will be held after 3 months and it is the participants themselves who decide on the content of these days. An experienced patient will participate throughout the course. The exercise part consists of group training twice a week for 3 months with 10-15 participants in each group. Patients will instead of five of the group training sessions, participate in a self-help group.
BEHAVIORAL	Group training	Combined educational and exercise program for pulmonary rehabilitation. The educational part consists firstly of two days with group meetings with information from medical doctor, pharmacist, psychologist, ergonomist, nurse, social worker, physiotherapist and a clinical nutritional physiologist. One more day will be held after 3 months and it is the participants themselves who decide on the content of these days. An experienced patient will participate throughout the course. The exercise part consists of group training twice a week for 3 months with 10-15 participants in each group.

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-09-01
• Primary completion: 2011-08-01
• Completion: 2011-11-01
• First posted: 2008-06-26
• Last updated: 2017-02-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Norway