Postoperative Telerehabilitation in Older Adults

Pusan National University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Telerehabilitation; Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung; Cardiopulmonary Exercise Test

Treatments: Other: Control (Education); Other: Pulmonary Tele-Rehabilitation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05435885

2205-033-114

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to confirm the effectiveness of a mobile messenger-based home tele-rehabilitation protocol in patients who have undergone lung resection surgery.

By analyzing the difference from the existing postoperative pulmonary rehabilitation, the investigators would like to propose a new pulmonary tele-rehabilitation protocol.

Enrollment: 64 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. A person who is suspected of lung cancer and is scheduled to undergo a thoracoscopic lung resection surgery.
2. men and women the age ≥65 years.
3. A person who understands the course of the clinical trial and signs the informed consent form.

Exclusion criteria

1. Patients whose activity is restricted due to other diseases (e.g. osteoarthritis, spinal disease, cerebral infarction, etc.)
2. Patients who cannot test bioimpedance analysis due to the insertion of artificial pacemakers and defibrillators
3. A person who has difficulty judging himself/herself due to dementia, etc
4. Those enrolled in other clinical trials
5. A person deemed inappropriate to participate in this clinical trial under the judgement of the investigator.
6. A person who cannot use mobile messenger

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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64 participants in 2 patient groups

Tele-rehabilitation group

Experimental group

Description:

The Tele-rehabilitation group performs 12 training sessions during four weeks. (3 sessions/week)

Treatment:

Other: Pulmonary Tele-Rehabilitation

Control group

Other group

Description:

The control group receives usual care with only one educational session.

Treatment:

Other: Control (Education)