NCT03836547

Feasibility of a Multi Component Intervention in Patients With Severe Dyspnea and Obesity

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 28 (actual)
• Sponsor: Mayo Clinic · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Researchers are trying to test the effectiveness and feasibility of a multicomponent lifestyle intervention to support weight loss decreases dyspnea in obese people with chronic lung disease and clinically significant breathlessness.

Detailed description

Patient will be randomized to a 12-week intervention that uses the Weight watchers lifestyle program online, a Garmin Fitness Tracker, blue tooth scale and receive health coaching vs a wait-list control group.

Conditions

• COPD
• Emphysema
• Lung Diseases

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Coaching and Weight Loss for patients with dyspnea	Patients with lung disease and a BMI of 35 or greater who suffer from shortness of breath will be invited to participate in a study involving a commercial weight loss application with health coaching. The patients will subscribe on their own to the weight loss application. The patients will be provided with a blue tooth scale so that they may weigh themselves weekly. A health coach will call them weekly for 8 weeks.
BEHAVIORAL	Active Control	Participants will receive usual care for 12 weeks followed by the active intervention.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-12-19
• Primary completion: 2022-09-30
• Completion: 2022-09-30
• First posted: 2019-02-11
• Last updated: 2022-11-02

Locations

3 sites across 1 country: United States