NCT07198763

Comparison Between Conventional Rehabilitation and Conventional Rehabilitation Through Dance in Patients With COPD

Comparison Between Conventional Rehabilitation and Conventional Rehabilitation Through Dance in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 44 (actual)
• Sponsor: Centro Universitário Augusto Motta · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Introduction: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is recognized as one of the most relevant conditions worldwide, due to its high morbidity and mortality. Patients classified by GOLD as groups B and E are strongly encouraged to participate in pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) programs. Dance has been shown to be equally or, at times, more effective as a rehabilitation strategy when compared to other types of physical activity. Objective: To compare the effect of conventional rehabilitation and the effect of conventional rehabilitation added to dance in patients with COPD. Methods: This is a conventional randomized controlled clinical trial to be carried at the Piquet Carneiro University Polyclinic, Rio de Janeiro. Patients diagnosed with COPD will be evaluated. Eligible participants will complete specific questionnaires and tests. Finally, participants will be randomly divided into two groups: one group will perform conventional PR twice a week and the other group will perform rehabilitation through dance twice a week using 2 different playlists. The music will be from nationally and internationally known artists during 8 weeks. The evaluation tests will be repeated at the end of the intervention. Expected results: It is expected that the group of individuals with COPD who perform rehabilitation through dance will obtain greater and better results in relation to exercise capacity, QoL and peripheral muscle strength when compared to the group that will carry out the intervention consisting of two days of conventional PR. Keywords: Dance; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Muscle strength; Quality of life; Rehabilitation.

Detailed description

Introduction: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is recognized as one of the most relevant conditions worldwide, due to its high morbidity and mortality. Patients classified by GOLD as groups B and E are strongly encouraged to participate in pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) programs. Dance has been shown to be equally or, at times, more effective as a rehabilitation strategy when compared to other types of physical activity. Objective: To compare the effect of conventional rehabilitation and the effect of conventional rehabilitation added to dance in patients with COPD. Methods: This is a conventional randomized controlled clinical trial to be carried at the Piquet Carneiro University Polyclinic, Rio de Janeiro. Patients diagnosed with COPD, of both sexes, will be evaluated. Eligible participants will complete quality of life questionnaires - 36-item Short Form (SF-36), the COPD Assessment Test (CAT) and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). Additionally, patients will undergo pulmonary function tests, including spirometry, in addition to the six-minute walk test (6MWT), the handgrip test and the one repetition maximum test (1RM test). Finally, participants will be randomly divided into two groups: one group will perform conventional PR twice a week and the other group will perform rehabilitation through dance twice a week using 2 different playlists. The music will be from nationally and internationally known artists during 8 weeks. The evaluation tests will be repeated at the end of the intervention. Expected results: It is expected that the group of individuals with COPD who perform rehabilitation through dance will obtain greater and better results in relation to exercise capacity, QoL and peripheral muscle strength when compared to the group that will carry out the intervention consisting of two days of conventional PR. Keywords: Dance; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Muscle strength; Quality of life; Rehabilitation.

Conditions

• Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Chronic Obstructive
• Dance Therapy
• Dance

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Conventional pulmonary rehabilitation	After completing the assessments, participants will be randomly divided into two groups: Group 1, which will perform PR exercises and the Group 2, which will perform PR through dance. Both groups will have the interventions of pulmonary rehabilitation during approximately 50 minutes, for 8 weeks. The group 1 will perform five different exercises with resistance bands, with 3 sets of 1 minute each. Exercises will always begin with the lightest resistance band, and if more than 30 repetitions are observed in 1 minute, the resistance band will be replaced with one of the next highest resistance. The Group 2 will perform rehabilitation through dance using 2 different playlists. The music will be from nationally and internationally known artists. The steps will be based on the exercises performed in group 1 and will be incremented throughout each song and playlist. At the end of 8 weeks of intervention, the evaluative tests will be applied again.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-09-07
• Primary completion: 2025-09-07
• Completion: 2026-04-20
• First posted: 2025-09-30
• Last updated: 2025-09-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil