Optimizing the Effect of COPD Rehabilitation

Glostrup University Hospital, Copenhagen

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Treatments: Behavioral: follow-up rehabilitation of participants with COPD

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00419289

KA20060179

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) may benefit from an 8-week pulmonary rehabilitation programme. However, the effect of the programme tends to attenuate with time. Patients who complete the programme are randomized to continued rehabilitation follow-up and control follow-up.

Full description

Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) may benefit from an 8-week pulmonary rehabilitation programme according to guidelines of the Danish Society of Pulmonary Medicine. However, the effect of programme tends to attenuate with time. Patients who complete the programme are randomized to continued rehabilitation follow-up and control follow-up.

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• FEV1 < 60% of expected

Exclusion criteria

• Other severe chronic conditions

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)