NCT05986448

Effects of Tai Chi for Early Pulmonary Rehabilitation in Elderly Patients With AECOPD

Effects of Tai Chi for Early Pulmonary Rehabilitation in Elderly Patients With Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (AECOPD) and Malnutrition: a Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 96 (actual)
• Sponsor: Houmei SHEN · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years – 85 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn about the therapeutic effect of Chinese traditional exercise Tai Chi in elderly acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD) with malnutrition. The main questions it aims to answer are: 1. Improvement of pulmonary function in patients with Tai Chi exercise; 2. Improvement of pulmonary function in patients with Tai Chi exercise. The patients in control group were given routine nursing care model, including: 1. Providing basic nursing care and protection for patients according to their needs, paying attention to the care of patients' airways, and providing relevant protection and auxiliary interventions according to the needs of patients when carrying out nebulized inhalation interventions; 2. Customized nutritional supplementation recipes by specialists in clinical nutrition, giving high-protein and low-carbohydrate diets, and giving enteral or parenteral nutritional support to those who have insufficient food intake through the mouth; 3. Carrying out health education and psychological care to alleviate the patients' psychological burdens. On the basis of the routine care model of the control group, a Tai Chi training program was developed in Tai Chi group. Tai Chi training lasted for a total of 6 months, with 4 training sessions scheduled per week, each session lasting about 40 minutes. Experts from Anqing Tai Chi Association were invited to guide the training. The training program consists of a 5-minute pre-training warm-up, a 30-minute Tai Chi exercise, and a 5-minute post-training stretching session. The Tai Chi training was done at a moderate intensity, with the heart rate limited to 60%\~80% of the maximal heart rate, where: maximal heart rate=220-age. Accelerometers were worn for each member to record heart rate changes during training, and when the heart rate exceeded the standard range, the exercise intensity could be adjusted to keep the heart rate within a reasonable range.

Conditions

• Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Tai-chi exercise	Traditional Chinese Tai Chi Movement

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-02-01
• Primary completion: 2023-01-01
• Completion: 2023-01-02
• First posted: 2023-08-14
• Last updated: 2023-08-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China