NCT07020182

Efficacy Of Inpatient Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program In Elderly Patients With Acute Exacerbation Of COPD

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Al-Azhar University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years – 78 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study aimed to identify the effect of early pulmonary rehabilitation in elderly patients with Acute exacerbation (AE) of COPD (AECOPD) in exercise tolerance, dyspnea, sleep quality, fatigue, and time to discharge from hospital.

Detailed description

A prospective supervised RCT (Randomized Controlled Trial) will be done include elderly COPD patients assigned randomly into two groups; Group A performed Physical therapy program, and Group B is control group completed two daily sessions from day 1 of hospital admission till discharge from the hospital .The study duration will be 12 weeks

Conditions

• COPD Received PR
• Elderly (People Aged 65 or More)
• COPD
• COPD Acute Exacerbation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	physical therapy program	Group A will performed a physical therapy program that completed two daily sessions till discharge from the hospital .Exercise training starts from randomisation until hospital discharge,and administered twice per day, seven times per week. The study will be start from day 1 of hospital admission till discharge from the hospital.The study duration will be 12 weeks

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-06-10
• Primary completion: 2025-09-10
• Completion: 2025-09-15
• First posted: 2025-06-13
• Last updated: 2025-06-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt