Respiratory Muscle Exercise Training in COPD Patients

The Effectiveness of Multi-respiratory Muscle Training on Respiratory Function in Patients With COPD

Status

UNKNOWN

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01747694

Enrollment

Registered

2012-12-12

Start date

2012-12-31

Completion date

2013-10-31

Last updated

2012-12-12

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

COPD

Keywords

COPD,Respiratory muscle training,Exercise tolerance

Brief summary

COPD patients often suffer from dyspnea and exercise intolerance which lower their quality of life.The aim of this proposed study is to examine the effectiveness of multi-respiratory muscle training on respiratory function of COPD patients.

Detailed description

The respiratory muscle training is an important part of pulmonary rehabilitation. Subjects will be recruited from the chest medicine clinic of a medical center in Northern Taiwan, randomly assigned to control and experimental groups by severity status for a 12-week muscle training intervention.The outcome measures will be performed to evaluate respiratory function, depression status and quality of life at baseline, 4, 8 and 12 weeks of training.

Interventions

BEHAVIORALMulti-respiratory muscle training

Patients will be taught the diaphragmatic breathing technique at the same time also will be instructed a four-item (including upper-arm weighted exercise, body side-bends, modified sit-ups, body crunching) multi-respiratory muscle training motions. To practice three times/day, three days a week lasting 12 weeks at home.

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

40 Years to 80 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Clinical diagnosis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease * Must be stable * Never participate in respiratory muscle trainig program

Exclusion criteria

* Infection or acute excerbation condition * Abdominal surgical * Severe neuromuscular, cardiac disease or dementia

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
PE max	three months	maximal strength of expiratory muscle

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
PI max	three months	maximal strength of inspiratory muscle
6MWT	three months	six-minute walking test
MVV	three months	maximal voluntary volume

Other

Measure	Time frame	Description
St. George's Respiratory Questionnaire	three months	Disease-Specific quality of life
CES-D	three months	assessment of depressive status

Countries

Taiwan

Contacts

Primary ContactShu-Chuan Ho, PhD

sc6212.ho@msa.hinet.net+886+3+3281200

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026