NCT01464736

Noninvasive Ventilation on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Patient Functionality

Impact of Aerobic Physical Training Associated With Noninvasive Ventilation on COPD Patient Functionality - A Controlled Randomized Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 23 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 60 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

On the following tests, there would be a greater increase in the functionality of COPD patients who underwent combined therapy than in those who only exercised: a set of activities of daily living (ADLs), the six-minute walk test (6MWT), an incremental symptom-limited cardiopulmonary test (CPT), and the physical functioning scale of the Short-Form 36 quality of life questionnaire (SF-36).

Detailed description

Impact of aerobic exercise plus noninvasive ventilation (NIV) on the functionality of patients with COPD. Thirty patients (70.5 - 8.5 years) with COPD (forced expiratory volume in the first second 48.5 - 15.4% of predicted) were randomized into either a physical training group involving aerobic treadmill exercise (PTG, n=12) or an exercise plus bilevel ventilation group (PTGNIV, n=11) with sessions three times a week for six weeks.

Conditions

• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	physical training	For both groups, the approximately hour-long sessions occurred three times a week on alternate days for six consecutive weeks (18 sessions). Each session began with five minutes of stretching that included the cervical muscles and the upper and lower limbs, which was followed by five minutes of warm-up on a treadmill at 2Km/h and 30 minutes of aerobic physical training at a constant 3% incline.

Timeline

• Start date: 2006-01-01
• Primary completion: 2010-11-01
• Completion: 2010-12-01
• First posted: 2011-11-03
• Last updated: 2011-11-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil