Quality of Life and Lung Function on Post Covid-19 Patient

Qassim University

Status: Completed

Conditions: COVID-19

Treatments: Other: breathing exercise, Aerobic exercises

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05172102

H-04-Q-001

Details and patient eligibility

About

Gaining a greater understanding of how the breathing exercise combined with aerobic and strengthening exercises will affects lung function and quality of life in post covid-19 persons

Full description

this will improve exercise prescription guidelines relevant to this post covid-19. Therefore, the purpose of this work was determining the effect of breathing exercise combined with aerobic and strengthening exercises in improve chest expansion, lung function and quality of life in post covid-19 persons.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 20 to 30 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Female. Age from 20 to 30 years old. - Body mass index (BMI) 19 to 24 kg/m2.- Non-smoker- Recovered from COVID-19 over the past 12 months. - They are experiencing mild to moderate symptoms without any complications. -
• Able to use online communication programs.

Exclusion criteria

• • Anyone who does regular physical exercise.
• history of acute illness, asthma, pulmonary fibrosis, hypertension, diabetes disease.
• hypoxemia in rest.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

study group

Experimental group

Description:

Will receive diaphragmatic breathing with pursed lips as (breathing exercise), They will instruct to perform 3 different conditions will be registered: (1) 6 min of quiet breathing (3 sets of 2 min each), defined as spontaneous breathing pattern; (2) 6 min of diaphragmatic breathing (3 sets of 2 min each); and (3) 6 min of diaphragmatic breathing plus pursed-lips breathing (3 sets of 2 min each). For aerobic exercises: Will include the following exercises: walking, cycling, running and intermittent running. The exercises will perform for 18-60 minutes for 1-2 sets per week. For resistance exercises: Will include the following 8 exercises: shoulder press, biceps curl, triceps curl, bench press, leg squats, leg press, leg curl and toe raise. The exercises will perform for 60 minutes for 2-3 sets per week.

Treatment:

Other: breathing exercise, Aerobic exercises

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

not receiving any exercises