Sing Your Lungs Out: Effect of community singing group on lung function, anxiety and depression, and health care use in patients with COPD who have completed pulmonary rehabilitation programme.

Sing Your Lungs Out: Effect of participation in weekly community singing group for 1 year, on lung function, anxiety and depression and health care use in patients with COPD who have completed pulmonary rehabilitation: a quantitative and qualitative study.

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12615000736549

Enrollment

Registered

2015-07-16

Start date

2014-10-20

Completion date

2015-05-12

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

This is a study looking at the potential health benefits to being part of a community based weekly singing group for patients with COPD who have completed pulmonary rehabilitation. We want to see if being part of a singing group sustains or even improves the health benefits of pulmonary rehabilitation.

Interventions

Weekly attendance at one hour community singing group for one year, (with register of attendance) having completed pulmonary rehabilitation.

Study design

Allocation

Non-randomised trial

Primary purpose

Treatment

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Have chronic lung disease and breathlessness. Have completed a CCDHB pulmonary rehabilitation programme and are attending a weekly maintenance exercise class

Exclusion criteria

Current enrolment in another clinical COPD trial.

Outcome results