Actively Recruiting
Chair-based and Standard Exercise Programs in People With COPD
Led by Istanbul Medipol University Hospital · Updated on 2025-05-01
64
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
97 weeks
Total Duration
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AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
Patients who are diagnosed with COPD by a pulmonology specialist and referred to pulmonary rehabilitation will be included in the study. Cases that meet the inclusion criteria will be randomized and divided into two groups, standard exercise program group (SGr) and chair-based exercise. program group will be called (ChGr). While standard exercises will be given to SGr, chair-based exercises will be applied to ChGr. All evaluation and initial training sessions of the cases will be held in the hospital. Apart from this, they will be asked to do their exercises at home with the exercise videos that will be sent to them. In order to ensure that home exercises are performed completely and correctly, 2 sessions of online simultaneous exercise training will be provided with a physiotherapist via videoconference on a smartphone, and exercise follow-ups will be carried out by calling once a week. The program duration is 8 weeks, 5 days a week.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Chair-based and Standard Exercise Programs in People With COPD
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Be between 18 and 75 years old
- Have a COPD diagnosis based on clinical criteria from the American Thoracic and European Respiratory Societies
- Experience breathlessness when exerting yourself
- Be in a stable condition without infection or COPD flare-ups in the past 4 weeks
- Have skills to use a smartphone
You will not qualify if you...
- Have severe other diseases, unstable coronary artery disease, collagen vascular diseases, or need high-flow oxygen therapy (3-4 liters per minute or more)
- Have a history of dizziness or fainting during exercise or any severe orthopedic, neurological, or unstable heart conditions that prevent exercise
- Have participated in a pulmonary rehabilitation program within the last 12 months
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
Yedikule Chest Disease Hospital
Istanbul, Zeytinburnu, Turkey (Türkiye), 34200
Actively Recruiting
Research Team
E
ESRA PEHLİVAN
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How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
NONE
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Model
PARALLEL
Primary Purpose
TREATMENT
Number of Arms
2
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