NCT05279521

The Effect of Interventional Pulmonary Rehabilitation Exercise With Advanced Lung Cancer.

The Effect of Interventional Pulmonary Rehabilitation Exercise on the Psychological Distress, Self-efficacy, and Quality of Life of Patients With Advanced Lung Cancer.

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 104 (estimated)
• Sponsor: National Taiwan University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study concluded that lung rehabilitation exercise programs can improve the psychological distress, self-efficacy, quality of life, six-minute walk distance, muscle strength, and reduce the number of hospitalizations for patients with advanced lung cancer.

Detailed description

Lung cancer is the top ten cause of cancer death in Taiwan. Since symptoms in the early stage are insidious, most patients are diagnosed in the advanced stage. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy are often necessary because most of the advanced stage lung cancer has metastasized and multi-organ involved. The prolonged treatment course and side effects of the chemotherapy and radiotherapy, as long as the low survival rate, all impaired the quality of life. Recent studies have shown that exercise can improve the quality of life of cancer patients; therefore, the purpose of this study is to explore the effects of interventional lung rehabilitation exercises on psychological distress, self-efficacy and quality of life in patients with advanced lung cancer. The research is an interventional study. For the experimental group, lung rehabilitation exercise programs, including endurance training, muscle strength training and breathing training, were given; for the control group, a leaflet for lung rehabilitation exercise were provided. Random allocation software was used to randomly allocate cases to the experimental group and the control group. The patients were enrolled from the ward of the Department of Thoracic Medicine in a teaching hospital in north Taiwan. The estimated number of enrollment was 104. The structured questionnaire was used for data collection and analysis. The questionnaire contained 4 dimensions, including basic demographic characteristics, anxiety and depression scale, self-efficacy scale and quality of life scale. The data were collected at 4 time points; before the intervention (baseline measurement, T1), 4 weeks after the intervention (T2), 6 weeks after the intervention (T3), and 8 weeks after the intervention program (T4). At the same time, the six-minute walking distance and maximum strength training test of each case were measured at the baseline (T1) and 8 weeks after the intervention program (T4). We used the independent sample test,chi square test , Pearson correlation coefficient analysis and single-factor analysis of variance, and the generalized estimation equation for analysis of the psychological distress, self-efficacy, and quality of life between the two groups. This study concluded that lung rehabilitation exercise programs can improve the psychological distress, self-efficacy, quality of life, six-minute walk distance, muscle strength, and reduce the number of hospitalizations for patients with advanced lung cancer.

Conditions

• Lung Cancer
• Pulmonary Rehabilitation
• Exercise
• Lung Adenocarcinoma
• Lung Tumor
• Lung Neoplasms
• Advanced Lung Cancer
• Self Efficacy
• Quality of Life
• Psychological Distress

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	pulmonary rehabilitation exercise	The lung rehabilitation exercise is divided into three parts: upper and lower limb muscle strength, endurance training and breathing training skills. It lasts for eight weeks of exercise training, and the exercise frequency is: three times a week.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-03-20
• Primary completion: 2023-02-15
• Completion: 2024-12-30
• First posted: 2022-03-15
• Last updated: 2022-03-15