Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT01963923
Effectiveness of a Preoperative Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program in Patients Awaiting Lung Resection
Effectiveness of a Preoperative Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program in Exercise Tolerance and Quality of Life in Patients Awaiting Lung Resection by Video-assisted Thoracic Surgery
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 40 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Universidade da Coruña · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
The purpose of this study is to establish the effectiveness of a preoperative pulmonary rehabilitation program in patients awaiting lung resection for lung cancer by Video-assisted thoracic surgery in order to improve exercise tolerance and quality of life. The investigators hypothesized that a pulmonary rehabilitation program including both endurance and strength training may improve exercise tolerance and quality of life measured with a submaximal exercise test and a quality of life questionnaire respectively.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program | The pulmonary rehabilitation program includes an endurance training with a cycloergometer, a strength training with elastic bands and two dairy sessions of incentive spirometry with a volume-oriented device. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2013-10-01
- Primary completion
- 2015-07-01
- Completion
- 2015-10-01
- First posted
- 2013-10-16
- Last updated
- 2020-05-01
- Results posted
- 2020-05-01
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Spain
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01963923. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.