The Short Physical Performance Battery in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

LHL Helse

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Treatments: Other: Pulmonary rehabilitation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02314338

REK2014/1499

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patients with COPD often have limitations to physical performance. There are several tests for evaluating physical performance, unfortunately many of them can be time consuming and require specialized equipment an substantial space. Short physical performance battery is a simple test that requires little resources and can be performed both at institutions and in the homes of patients. SPPB has high predictive abilities in identifying older adults at greater risk for mortality, nursing home admission, hospitalization, and incidence of disability. The investigators would like to evaluate possible changes in the SPPB score after a 4-week rehabilitation program. The investigators would also like to look at possible relationships between the SPPB and other physical performance measures, dyspnea, anxiety, depression, fatigue, and health related quality of life.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with all stages of COPD
• Decision making capacity to provide informed written consent
• Ability to understand and complete the questionnaires

Exclusion criteria

• Exacerbation within the last four weeks
• Co-morbidities that limits the patient's physical performance more than COPD
• Any patient whom is deemed unsafe to exercise
• Patients tested on treadmill protocol 4 (i.e. Glittre testing protocol)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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50 participants in 1 patient group

Pulmonary rehabilitation

Experimental group

Description:

Multi-disciplinary pulmonary rehabilitation

Treatment:

Other: Pulmonary rehabilitation