Effects of Combined Cognitive Rehabilitation in COPD Patients

Faculty of Medicine, Sousse

Status: Completed

Conditions: COPD

Treatments: Other: clinical trials

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03907839

pulmonary rehabilitation (Registry Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study was to examine the effect of endurance training combined with cognitive training in patients with COPD. The intervention group underwent Cognitive Training added to Endurance Training and the control group underwent only Endurance Training.

Full description

Pulmonary rehabilitation is an essential part of the management of COPD. Although various methods and therapies of PR have been used in COPD patients. Furthermore, the Cognitive Training has been performed people with mild cognitive impairments.

Therefore, the combination of endurance training and cognitive tarining could be another alternative to improve the exercise tolerance and cognitive function in patients with COPD. It may also be useful for clinicians interested in designing new rehabilitation therapies. The aim of the study was to analyze the effect of CT combined with ET on exercise tolerance and cognitive functions in COPD patient.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 60 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• clinically stable COPD diagnosed by pulmonary function testing (2) absence of heart diseases, severe psychiatric, neurologic or musculoskeletal conditions and /or instable cardiovascular diseases. (3) Absence of medication influencing cognition (4) without history of brain injury, history of stroke or history of alcoholism.

Exclusion criteria

• smoking COPD
• heart diseases
• instable cardiovascular diseases

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Endurance Training (ET)

Active Comparator group

Description:

endurance training for control group

Treatment:

Other: clinical trials

ET+cognitive training(CT)

Experimental group

Description:

endurance training added to cognitive training for exprimental COPD group

Treatment:

Other: clinical trials