Promotion of Active Lifestyle in Pneumonia Patients

University of Granada (UGR)

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Pneumonia

Treatments: Other: Control Intervention; Other: Physical Activity Promotion

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06206980

DF0100UG

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patients who have suffered a pneumonia used to reduce their activity levels because of the symptoms and the fear to suffer breathlessness. These patients often have sequelae after the hospitalization that previous studies have associated with a lack of physical activity.

The main objective of this research is to investigate the efficacy of a rehabilitation program for promotion higher activity levels in quality of life and self-perceived discapacity of pneumonia patients.

Enrollment: 66 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients of both sexes.
• Agreed to participate.
• Pneumonia patients meeting the diagnosis criteria for this disease.

Exclusion criteria

• Neurological or orthopaedic pathologies that limited voluntary movement.
• Cognitive impairment that prevented them from understanding and answering the questionnaires.
• Patients who don´t understand Spanish language

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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66 participants in 2 patient groups

Physical Activity Promotion Group

Experimental group

Description:

The rehabilitation program has the purpose of motivating patients to be more physically active. The treatment protocol had a total duration of 12 weeks. During hospitalization, an education of patients is conducted and physical activity is initiated. A diary is provided to patients to record the activities that they perform during each week until completing the 12 weeks. Additionally, phone calls are performed at 15 days, 1 and 2 months to motivate patients and answer any questions they may have.

Treatment:

Other: Physical Activity Promotion

Control group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients received an informational brochure in a consultation with a health professional. The brochure explained the importance of physical activity to improve the health condition of these patients. Patients had the opportunity to ask any questions to the healthcare professional.

Treatment:

Other: Control Intervention