NCT05813873

The Use of Incentive Spirometry in Adult Patients Hospitalised in a Rehabilitation Center With Long-covid Syndrome

The Use of Incentive Spirometry (Triflow) in Patients With Long Covid

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 70 (estimated)
• Sponsor: European University Cyprus · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of this clinical trial is to investigate the efficacy of Triflow in the rehabilitation of patients with long covid syndrome hospitalised in a rehabilitation center. Participants will be divided into 2 groups and follow their exercise regime until the day they are discharged from the rehabilitation center. The intervention group will participate in a rehabilitation program which includes upper and lower limbs exercises, cycle ergometer, walking and the use of triflow. The control group will participate in the same program but without the Triflow.

Detailed description

Randomised controlled trial with 2 groups:Triflow and exercises (intervention) and exercises (control) Exercises:Exercises in the bed, chair and standing with/without weights, walking, cycle ergometer, treadmill. Triflow: 10 breaths in and 10 breaths out. Both groups will have 1 physiotherapy session per day for 6 days per week from admission to discharge. Sample size:The sample size is 70. We took into consideration the efficacy of completing the recruitment of patients in time. There few published studies with the use of Triflow as their primary intervention with smaller sample sizes. Population: Adults with long covid hospitalised in the rehabilitation center Statistical Analysis: will be done through IBM SPSS Statistics 20 and the level of statistical significance will be (p \< 0.05). From the literature and international guidelines, physiotherapy should be offered to people hospitalized with long-COVID, without any serious risks and offering significant benefit.

Conditions

• Long COVID

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Triflow	Triflow
OTHER	Control	Exercise

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-12-21
• Primary completion: 2025-12-23
• Completion: 2026-12-31
• First posted: 2023-04-14
• Last updated: 2025-08-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Cyprus