Self-management in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Patients Compared to Usual Care

University of Crete

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Treatments: Behavioral: Self Management

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05918731

COPDSELF-1

Details and patient eligibility

About

Evaluation of the effectiveness of COPD self-management interventions compared to usual on Quality of life, functional status, patient education, depression, and anxiety in primary healthcare users in the prefecture of Heraklion, Greece.

Full description

To the best of our knowledge, no previous study has examined the effects of self-management programs on patients with COPD in Greece. Therefore, the investigators conducted a randomized controlled trial with a post-test design, to evaluate the implementation and clinical effectiveness of a COPD self-management intervention compared to usual care in terms of the following outcomes: Quality of life, functional status, patient education, depression, and anxiety.

Enrollment: 120 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients aged ≥18 years
• had previously been given a physician-diagnosis of mild COPD
• stable on their medications (no treatment modifications) in the last three months
• able to speak, read and/or understand Greek

Exclusion criteria

• refusal to participate
• concurrent oncological diseases
• severe cognitive impairment
• neurological, or psychiatric disability

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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120 participants in 2 patient groups

Usual Care Group

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients who were assigned to receive usual care were instructed to continue up with their regular medical appointments and their usual check-ups/reviews and if they had any questions, to call the health coach.

Self-management Intervention Group

Active Comparator group

Description:

In the intervention group, a self-management program was implemented.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Self Management