Urban Walking Circuits

Hospital de Mataró

Status: Completed

Conditions: Severe Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Treatments: Other: rehabilitation more the urban circuit; Other: rehabilitation program but not given urbane circuits

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01854008

WALURB-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of the implementation of walking urban circuits in increasing the level of physical activity and exercise capacity in severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients after being enrolled in a pulmonary rehabilitation program.

Enrollment: 82 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 50 to 85 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• severe COPD (post-bronchodilator Forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1)/ Forced vital capacity (FVC) <0.7 and FEV1 <50%) and stable disease defined as no exacerbation, hospital admission or change in treatment in the previous three months.

Exclusion criteria

• The exclusion criteria were: other significant respiratory disease (bronchiectasis, lung fibrosis, asthma, etc.), active smoking, severe cardiovascular, neurological, musculoskeletal and/or metabolic pathology that could interfere with the results, alcoholism (>80g/day) or severe malnutrition (BMI<19kg/m2).

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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82 participants in 2 patient groups

rehabilitation program more the urban circuit

Experimental group

Description:

One group, the urban circuit group (UCG), received a triptych that included urban walking circuits,the remaining patients formed the non circuit group (NCG).These circuits can be obtained on the website http://www.mataro.cat/web/portal/ca/salut/salut_publica/itineraris/index

Treatment:

Other: rehabilitation more the urban circuit

rehabilitation program non circuit group .

Experimental group

Description:

One group, the urban circuit group (UCG), received a triptych that included urban walking circuits,the remaining patients formed the non circuit group (NCG)

Treatment:

Other: rehabilitation program but not given urbane circuits