Enabling Independent Living by Expanding Access to Home-Based Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Mayo Clinic

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Treatments: Behavioral: Video Chat

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT04479969

20-003806

1R43HL151461 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to test an existing home-based pulmonary rehab program with the addition of video chat and a capability of a Spanish version.

Full description

The purpose of this research is to test video chat on a computer tablet that is used for Pulmonary Rehabilitation. We are interested in learning patients' thoughts on how easy or difficult video chat is to use and the translation to Spanish and the feed back from Spanish speaking patients .

Enrollment: 9 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients must be ≥ 40 years old.
• Patients mist have a diagnosis of GOLD stage II, III, or IV COPD documented by pulmonary function testing.
• Patients must be a current or previous smoker with at least 10 pack-years of cigarette smoking.

Additional Inclusion Criteria to test Spanish version of system:

• Be a native Spanish speaker.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with a high likelihood of being lost to follow-up or contact (patients with active chemical dependency).
• Patients planning to move out of the state or who are not living in the healthcare area.
• Patients with an inability to provide good data or follow commands (patients who are disoriented, have a severe neurologic or psychiatric condition).

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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9 participants in 1 patient group

Intervention

Other group

Description:

This is a small study to assess the usability of video conferencing. A total of 10 patients will be enrolled, 5 of which will be Spanish speakers. All patients will test the video conferencing.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Video Chat