NCT02702791

Sustaining Training Effects Through Physical Activity

Enhancing Physical Activity to Achieve Sustainable Benefits in Extrapulmonary Consequences of COPD

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 73 (actual)
• Sponsor: KU Leuven · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 40 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This randomized control trial will investigate whether the implementation of a telecoaching program, initiated during pulmonary rehabilitation, is able to increase and maintain physical activity and general benefits until six months after rehabilitation discharge. After three months of pulmonary rehabilitation (3 times a week), patients with COPD will be randomized to either an intervention group which receives an additional telecoaching program on top of the pulmonary rehabilitation, or to the usual care group, which only receives rehabilitation program. Apart from the added telecoaching program to the intervention group, the rehabilitation program will be identical and last for another three months (2 times a week). After discharge, both groups will be followed up for six months.

Conditions

• Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Telecoaching	Pedeometer based goals and telecoaching support
OTHER	pulmonary rehabilitation	Conventional pulmonary rehabilitation along the ATS-ERS guidelines, total duration 6 months.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-10-01
• Primary completion: 2019-09-01
• Completion: 2019-10-01
• First posted: 2016-03-09
• Last updated: 2019-10-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Belgium