Status:
COMPLETED
Aerobic Exercise in Children With Moderate and Severe Asthma
Lead Sponsor:
Instituto Materno Infantil Prof. Fernando Figueira
Conditions:
Asthma
Eligibility:
All Genders
8-19 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
Regular aerobic physical activity in short-term moderate asthma and severe: * Reduce the levels of inflammatory mediators * Improves functional capacity * Improves Quality of Life * Improved lung fun...
Detailed Description
Methods: Is designed a randomized clinical trial, efficacy, outpatient physical therapy developed in the Institute of Integrative Medicine Teacher Fernando Figueira (IMIP). A pilot study with 20 parti...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Age greater than eight and less than nineteen years
- Diagnosis of moderate to severe persistent asthma according to criteria of GINA
- forced expiratory volume in one minute (FEV1) below 80% of predicts
- Initiation of treatment with inhaled corticosteroids for at least eight weeks before the start of collection.
Exclusion
- associated disease that limits physical activity, such as neuromuscular disease, congenital or acquired, severe cor pulmonate, severe congenital malformation
- associated with chronic lung disease (cystic fibrosis, bronchiectasis, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, interstitial lung diseases
- significant cognitive deficit, which makes the participant to respond adequately to the questionnaire and / or failure to meet the commands
- exacerbation of crisis (This will be a temporary exclusion criterion, as having taken action as directed by medical routine, the participant can return to training)
- mental deficit.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
August 1 2011
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
March 1 2013
Estimated Enrollment :
50 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01920529
Start Date
August 1 2011
End Date
March 1 2013
Last Update
August 12 2013
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Integral Medicine Institute Professor. Fernando Figueira-IMIP
Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, 50070550