Profile of COPD Patients Refusing Educational Program in Pulmonary Rehabilitation and Impact on the Benefits

ADIR Association

Status

Completed

Conditions

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Treatments

Other: Educational program

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04301245

RETRO-ETP

Details and patient eligibility

About

Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) has proven its efficacy to improve dyspnea, health status, exercise tolerance and quality of life for patients with stable Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Exercise training has previously been thoroughly studied but education has been less studied in PR. Furthermore, only few studies have investigated the added value of an educational program (EP) to exercise training on clinical and physical factors. Characterizing those patients who refuse EP is therefore a first step to better target them and potentially improve their adherence and outcome following PR.

The aim of this study was to determine the characteristics of the COPD patients referred to PR who refused EP compare to those who accepted and to identify the independent predictive factors of refusal. The investigators also sought to compare the change in clinical outcomes and number and length of hospitalization at six months following PR among those patients who accepted or not to participate in EP.

Enrollment

201 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Clinical diagnosis of COPD,
>18 years old,
Stable state of COPD.

Exclusion criteria

Patients who have not been offered an educational program
Patients who have already been offered an educational program during a pulmonary rehabilitation in the same center.