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Pulmonary Rehabilitation and Smoking

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Izmir Katip Celebi University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Rehabilitation; Tobacco Use
Smoking

Treatments

Other: Exercise

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

Details and patient eligibility

About

Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is known to reduce dyspnea, increase exercise capacity, reduce psychological symptoms and improve quality of life in COPD patients. Some patients continue to smoke despite their illness. Smoking does not create a contraindication to PR. There is insufficient evidence on the effectiveness of PR programs in smoking COPD patients. The purpose of this study, PR completed the program to determine the effectiveness of PR smoker COPD patients.

Full description

Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is known to reduce dyspnea, increase exercise capacity, reduce psychological symptoms and improve quality of life in COPD patients. Some patients continue to smoke despite their illness. Smoking does not create a contraindication to PR. There is insufficient evidence on the effectiveness of PR programs in smoking COPD patients. The purpose of this study, PR completed the program to determine the effectiveness of PR smoker COPD patients. People who have completed the PR program, smoking and not smoking will be included into the study.

Data of carbon monoxide diffusion test, body plethysmography, 6-min walk test, blood gas analysis, mMRC dyspnea scale, hospital anxiety depression scale, SGRQ and SF-36 quality of life questionnaire performed before and after the program will be analyzed.

Enrollment

31 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • COPD patients completed 8 PR program

Exclusion criteria

  • Never smoked patients
  • Participated PR program in last year

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Non-Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

31 participants in 2 patient groups

Smoking
Experimental group
Description:
8 week exercise program consists of breathing exercises, strength training and endurance training
Treatment:
Other: Exercise
Ex- Smoking
Experimental group
Description:
8 week exercise program consists of breathing exercises, strength training and endurance training
Treatment:
Other: Exercise

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