Efficacy of Smartphone Application Based Rehabilitations in Patients With Chronic Respiratory or Cardiovascular Disease

Asan Medical Center

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Cardiac Rehabilitation; Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Treatments: Device: smartphone application

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05610358

2022-1460

Details and patient eligibility

About

In Republic of Korea, it is not easy to practice standard pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) or cardiac rehabilitation (CR). In this study, the investigators will provide newly developed smartphone application to patients with chronic respiratory or cardiovascular diseases. The investigators want to confirm whether participants, who perform smartphone application based 12-week PR or CR program, present improved exercise capacity, dyspnea symptom, muscle strength, or quality of life.

Enrollment: 162 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Dyspnea symptom >= mMRC 1 or NYHA II

• adults between 20 years and 80 or years

  • Chronic respiratory disease

• FEV1/FVC < 0.7 or FEV1< 0.8 of predicted value in pulmonary function test

• bronchiectasis in more than one lobe on chest computed tomography

• FVC or DLCO < 0.8 of predicted value in pulmonary function test

  • Chronic cardiovascular disease

• Reperfusion Therapy for angina pectoris or myocardial infarction

• Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (LVEF < 50%)

Exclusion criteria

• history of acute exacerbation within 4 weeks
• unable to comply rehabilitation program
• not suitable for study on decision by duty physician
• no consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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162 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in the intervention group will be provided the smartphone application and they will practice application based rehabilitation for 12 weeks.

Treatment:

Device: smartphone application

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants in the control group will not practice rehabilitation program.