Shuttle Walk Test Performed on a Treadmill Versus a Corridor in Patients With COPD ((SWTiCOPD))

University of Nove de Julho

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Treatments: Other: Corridor; Other: Treadmill

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02348151

DPOCPC

Details and patient eligibility

About

It is still not clearly known whether doing the walk test in a course is different from doing it on a treadmill in the lack of a ten-meter-long corridor. In case of a positive outcome in this study, we will have an alternative for this test in places where there is not enough room, benefiting the assessment of COPD patients' functional capacity. In the literature, there are still some controversies about performing the test on a treadmill or in a corridor and whether there is interference with the distance walked. Our hypothesis is that there is no interference with the distance walked, and thus we have one more option to perform the test in case there is no 10-meter corridor available.

Full description

Spirometry tests will be performed using ULTIMA CPX equipment. Volunteers will perform the tests twice, on different days (see protocol description), in a corridor and on a treadmill, until reaching their limit of tolerance. In the test performed on the treadmill and in the one performed in the corridor, subjects will simultaneously use the VO 2000. And the volunteers will fill out the Saint George's Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ).

Enrollment: 47 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 85 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• clinically stable
• not dependent on oxygen to exercise
• diagnosis of COPD according to the GOLD

Exclusion criteria

• cognitive deficit or musculoskeletal
• in process of exacerbation
• have performed pulmonary rehabilitation

Trial design

47 participants in 2 patient groups

Treadmill

Experimental group

Description:

The Shuttle is going to play on treadmill

Treatment:

Other: Treadmill

Corridor

Active Comparator group

Description:

The Shuttle is going to play on corridor

Treatment:

Other: Corridor