Innovative Pulmonary Rehabilitation Telehealth Program for Improving COPD Patient Outcomes

University of Kansas

Status: Completed

Conditions: COPD

Treatments: Behavioral: Telehealth Program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03489642

STUDY00141490

Details and patient eligibility

About

Researchers want to learn more about telehealth pulmonary rehabilitation programs that help people with Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) improve physical activity and quality of life.

Enrollment: 12 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 45 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Hospital discharge diagnosis of COPD
• Spirometry-confirmed evidence of COPD Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) stages I to IV
• Access to internet connection and knowledge on use of web-based programs

Exclusion criteria

• Persons with additional significant comorbidities including cancer, cardiac disease and physical impairments
• Non-English speaking persons
• The inability to provide an informed consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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12 participants in 1 patient group

COPD Telehealth Program

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will take part in a structured telehealth program for 12 weeks. Web-based educational tools will be made available to participants. Study participants will meet with a registered respiratory therapist two times per week.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Telehealth Program