Educational Follow-up in COPD Patients After Pulmonary Rehabilitation. (EDURESPI)

Regional University Hospital Center (CHRU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04473313

29BRC20.0212 - EDURESPI

Details and patient eligibility

About

After pulmonary rehabilitation, the challenge is to maintain the benefits reached during the program and increase physical activity.

As exercise training, education is the corner stone of pulmonary rehabilitation. Education allows to support behavioral changes in daily life.

Recommendations about modalities for maintaining physical activity are still clear, however for educational follow up recommendations need to be clarified.

After a pulmonary rehabilitation program, there is no defined plan for educational follow up nor location to perform education session.

The aim of this study is to evaluate the proportion of patients who succeed to establish and maintain the objectives they defined during the pulmonary rehabilitation program, one year after this program.

Enrollment: 220 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• COPD patients COPD patients admitted for pulmonary rehabilitation program in pulmonary rehabilitation unit of CH des Pays de Morlaix or CHU Brest

Exclusion criteria

• inability to answer to the questionnaire
• refusal to participate.
• inability to perform the pulmonary rehabilitation program.