NCT01097473

Long Term Physical Training in Asthma

Effects of Long Term Physical Training Once a Week on Fitness and Quality of Life in Elderly Asthmatics

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 24 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This controlled study is undertaken to investigate the effects of a long term outpatient training program on physical fitness and quality of life in elderly asthmatics.

Detailed description

Physical training is well known to support a healthy lifestyle. Patients with asthma are often unnecessarily restricted of physical activities or avoid exercise due to the unpleasant experience of exercise-induced dyspnea. As a consequence both children and adults with asthma are less fit than their peers. Like in healthy individuals, regular training supports health in asthmatics. In short-term training programs improvements of physical capabilities have been achieved in children and young adults with asthma. Programs of longer durations than 3 months have not been published in controlled trials. Effects of exercise training on quality of life in adult asthmatics are lacking.

Conditions

• Asthma

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Exercise training	Exercise training in outpatient sport groups once weekly with a duration of 60 min each

Timeline

• Start date: 1996-04-01
• Primary completion: 1998-01-01
• Completion: 1998-03-01
• First posted: 2010-04-01
• Last updated: 2010-04-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany