Community-based pulmonary rehabilitation in people with Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) - economic benefit?

Community-based pulmonary rehabilitation in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the clinical and economic effects

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12614000416695

Enrollment

Registered

2014-04-16

Start date

2001-03-13

Completion date

2004-01-06

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

This study aims to determine if a community-based exercise program for people with COPD is economically beneficial and associated with improvements in exercise capacity and quality of life

Interventions

6 weeks of twice weekly supervised training compared to usual care. The sessions will be supervised by an experienced physiotherapist in pulmonary rehaiblitation. The duration of sessions is 60 minutes. EAch sessions will consist of a combination of walking training, cycling and light upper and lower limb weights. The training is all conducted in a group setting.

Study design

Allocation

Randomised controlled trial

Intervention model

Parallel

Primary purpose

Treatment

Masking

Blinded (masking used) (Outcomes Assessor)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

40 Years to 85 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Diagnosis of COPD (Physician and FEV1/FVC < 70% predicted) with stage 2 to 4 and significant smoking history of a minimum of 10 pack years Exertional dyspnoea of 2-4 according to MMRC

Exclusion criteria

Comorbidities limiting safety to exercise Inability to understand English Completion of pulmonary rehabilitation within previous 18 months Acute exacerbation of COPD within last 4 weeks

Outcome results