Inspiratory Muscle Training in Children With Beta Thalasemia

Ahram Canadian University

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Beta Thalassemia Major

Treatments: Behavioral: inspiratory muscle training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06466304

P.T -INT-06/2024- 544

Details and patient eligibility

About

respiratory complications are very prevalent in children with beta thalasemia major (BTM), so choosing inspiratory muscle trianing to decrease of prevent it and to improve pulmoanry funntions is important

Full description

children patients with BTM accounted 40 children will assigned to a group of inspiratory muscle training or waiting list group. the group will contain twenty children. the group of training will receive two session per day of training by threshold inspiratory muscle trainer ( for six day per week for 12 weeks)

Enrollment: 40 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 8 to 12 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 40 beta thalassemia major children
• boys and girls

Exclusion criteria

• respiratory diseases
• cardiac diseases renal diseases liver diseases muscle and joint disease

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

study group

Experimental group

Description:

children patients with BTM accounted 20 children will receive two session per day of training by threshold inspiratory muscle trainer ( for six day per week for 12 weeks). the session will contain six sets of inspiratory muscle training and the one set will contain five respiratory cycles

Treatment:

Behavioral: inspiratory muscle training

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

children patients with BTM accounted 20 children will receive no trianiing and will serve as control children group