NCT00882817

Pulmonary Rehabilitation in Interstitial Lung Diseases

Effects of Pulmonary Rehabilitation in Interstitial Lung Diseases: a Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: KU Leuven · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Treatment in interstitial lung diseases (ILD) is frequently ineffective. Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is an excellent therapeutic option in another chronic lung diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). This prospective randomized controlled study aims to evaluate the short and long-term effects of PR in patients with ILD. For this purpose, 60 ILD patients will be randomly assigned to a PR or a control group. The investigators hypothesize that PR will improve exercise capacity, increase muscle force, reduce dyspnea and improve quality of life and daily life activities in ILD patients.

Conditions

• Interstitial Lung Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Pulmonary Rehabilitation	The intervention group will perform a 6 month pulmonary rehabilitation program which consists of training, patient education, nutrition counseling and psychosocial support. They will be evaluated with some tests for the study.

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-04-01
• Primary completion: 2011-10-01
• Completion: 2011-11-01
• First posted: 2009-04-17
• Last updated: 2013-08-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Belgium