Effect of Home Exercise Activity on Cortisol and Depression in COPD During the Pandemic COVID

Cairo University (CU)

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Treatments: Behavioral: exercise group; Other: control group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04639349

P.T.REC/012/002897

Details and patient eligibility

About

exercise activity during the COVID pandemic is appreciated to be conducted in home especially for chronic chest diseases as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) to reduce the chance of viral contamination during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Full description

40 COPD men will be divided to exercise group (20 patients) and control group (20 patients):

the exercise group will receive a exercise session contains a fifty minutes exercise training at home with moderate intensity on the available training devices as bicycle or treadmill in addition to 30 minutes of exercising of upper and lower limb, the session will be repeated three times per week for eight weeks.

The control group will not be trained

Enrollment: 40 estimated patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 50 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• stable COPD patients
• patients who will have a training device as bicycle or treadmill in home

Exclusion criteria

• diabetic patients
• renal patients.
• liver diseases

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Exercised group

Experimental group

Description:

the exercise group (20 patients) will receive a exercise session contains a fifty minutes exercise training at home with moderate intensity on the available training devices as bicycle or treadmill in addition to 30 minutes of exercising of upper and lower limb, the session will be repeated three times per week for eight weeks.

Treatment:

Behavioral: exercise group

control group

Other group

Description:

The control group will not be trained

Treatment:

Other: control group