NCT02348151

Shuttle Walk Test Performed on a Treadmill Versus a Corridor in Patients With COPD

Analysis of Metabolic and Ventilatory Demands During the Shuttle Walk Test Performed on a Treadmill Versus a Corridor in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 47 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Nove de Julho · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 85 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

It is still not clearly known whether doing the walk test in a course is different from doing it on a treadmill in the lack of a ten-meter-long corridor. In case of a positive outcome in this study, we will have an alternative for this test in places where there is not enough room, benefiting the assessment of COPD patients' functional capacity. In the literature, there are still some controversies about performing the test on a treadmill or in a corridor and whether there is interference with the distance walked. Our hypothesis is that there is no interference with the distance walked, and thus we have one more option to perform the test in case there is no 10-meter corridor available.

Detailed description

Spirometry tests will be performed using ULTIMA CPX equipment. Volunteers will perform the tests twice, on different days (see protocol description), in a corridor and on a treadmill, until reaching their limit of tolerance. In the test performed on the treadmill and in the one performed in the corridor, subjects will simultaneously use the VO 2000. And the volunteers will fill out the Saint George's Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ).

Conditions

• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Treadmill	The volunteers will perform the shuttle walk test on the treadmill
OTHER	Corridor	The volunteers will perform the shuttle walk test on the corridor

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-01-01
• Primary completion: 2015-03-01
• Completion: 2016-06-01
• First posted: 2015-01-28
• Last updated: 2015-03-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil