3R Rehabilitation Management of COVID-19 Survivors

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Covid19

Treatments: Other: Cardiopulmonary exercise (centre-based); Other: Cardiopulmonary exercise (online-based)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04892979

HSEARS20200912001

Details and patient eligibility

About

It is to explore the temporal relationships between physical fitness, cognitive, psychosocial functions, and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in COVID-19 survivors over the first 15 months; and to determine the effects of centre-based (CBR), online-based cardiopulmonary rehabilitation (OBR), and combined centre- and online-based rehabilitation (COBR) on survivors with initially suboptimal pulmonary functions.

Enrollment: 400 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• COVID survivor at hospital discharge or 6-month post-disease onset
• Medically stable with an Abbreviated Mental Test (AMT) scores of > 6 out of 10

Exclusion criteria

• Having contraindications to exercise
• Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire (PAR-Q) reveals unsafety
• Cannot understand Cantonese

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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400 participants in 3 patient groups

Centre-based

Experimental group

Description:

Centre-based exercise cardiopulmonary rehabilitation program for 6 weeks

Treatment:

Other: Cardiopulmonary exercise (centre-based)

Online-based

Experimental group

Description:

Online-based exercise cardiopulmonary rehabilitation program for 6 weeks

Treatment:

Other: Cardiopulmonary exercise (online-based)

Combined

Experimental group

Description:

Combined centre- and online-based exercise cardiopulmonary rehabilitation program for 6 weeks

Treatment:

Other: Cardiopulmonary exercise (online-based)

Other: Cardiopulmonary exercise (centre-based)