Long Term Effect of an Education and Training Program for Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Treatments: Behavioral: education and training program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00159549

DMF 05/414

Details and patient eligibility

About

A parallell group study comparing the effect of an education program with an education and training program for patients with COPD. 30 participants in each group. Participants self-select which group they wanted to be in. Main outcome is SGRQ (a HQoL for patients with COPD).

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 99 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients diagnosed with COPD (FEV1<75% of expected) who have the ability to conversation and active participation will be included.

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)