Characterization of Variable MARrcha's Diary Variables as a Useful Measure

Ferran Morell

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03942302

FUC-EPO-2018-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

Validate a simple clinical tool to evaluate physical activity (the question "How many minutes does it walk per day?" Or equivalent), compared to the rest of the collected physical activity data (PROactive questionnaire and objective physical activity data by means of an accelerometer record) in patients with COPD.

Full description

Observational, national and multicenter epidemiological study in adult patients with COPD that will take place in the consultations of specialists in pneumology under conditions of usual clinical practice and that will be developed in two visits per patient.

Enrollment: 10 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Adult patients, ≥ 40 years.

• Patients diagnosed with COPD according to the GOLD criteria: FEV1 / FVC postbronchodilator <0.70 in a spirometry performed in the last 12 months.
• Smokers or ex-smokers of ≥10 pack-years.
• Patients with a minimum age in the diagnosis of COPD of at least 6 months.
• Patients who accept their participation in the study and who have given their informed consent (IC) in writing to participate in it.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients whose clinical history data are not available.
• Patients unable to understand the study questionnaires.
• Patients with physical limitation (not caused by the respiratory disease, eg disability, orthopedic limitation, etc.) and / or psychic that prevents the proper conduct of the study.
• Patients who present a moderate or severe exacerbation of COPD in the month prior to inclusion.
• Patients with other chronic respiratory diseases other than COPD (such as cystic fibrosis, bronchiectasis of origin other than COPD, neoplasia, pneumonia).
• Patients with serious cardiovascular or neurological diseases.
• Hospital admission for any reason in the month prior to inclusion.