Home Pulmonary Rehabilitation for COPD

Mayo Clinic

Status: Completed

Conditions: Emphysema; Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

Treatments: Behavioral: Home Based Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT03480386

R01HL140486-01 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

17-009449

Details and patient eligibility

About

Regular physical activity has been found to be important in maintaining health and well-being in people with COPD. The purpose of this study is to test new technology and health coaching aimed to help people with COPD become more physically active in their daily lives.

Enrollment: 375 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40 to 99 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Clinical diagnosis of COPD, confirmed by spirometry
• Age ≥40 years (to avoid recruiting participants with asthma rather than COPD)
• Current or previous smoker (≥10 packs per year)
• Confidence in using the proposed pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) system
• English language fluency

Exclusion criteria

• Study candidate experiencing an acute COPD exacerbation (can be included after the acute event)
• Inability to walk (orthopedic-neurologic problems or confined to a bed)
• Currently in PR or finished PR in the last three months (unlikely to improve)
• Pregnant women
• Live in an area where cell phones do not work/

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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375 participants in 2 patient groups

Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects will receive 12 weeks home pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) with health coaching.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Home Based Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Usual Care

No Intervention group

Description:

Subjects will receive 12 weeks of usual care.