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Pulmonary Tele-rehabilitation and Progressive Muscle Relaxation on Discharged Covid-19 Patients

Effect of Pulmonary Tele-rehabilitation With and Without Progressive Muscle Relaxation Program in Covid-19 Patients After Hospital Discharge: Randomized Clinical Trial

Status
Completed
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT04741282
Enrollment
58
Registered
2021-02-05
Start date
2021-05-01
Completion date
2021-10-30
Last updated
2023-09-28

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Conditions

Covid19

Brief summary

The aim of this study is to investigate efficacy of internet based pulmonary rehabilitation and progressive muscle relaxation program on functional capacity, depression and anxiety, dyspnea, fatigue, sleep quality and quality of life in covid19 patients after hospital discharge

Detailed description

Novel coronavirus disease 2019 (covid19) could cause respiratory and physical dysfunction, anxiety and depression, fatigue and affect sleep quality and quality of life in infected patient after hospital discharge. there is expect that pulmonary rehabilitation can improve these symptoms and prevent complications in these cases. It seems that Progressive muscle relaxation exercise could improve pulmonary rehabilitation effect. Due to social isolation of Covid 19 patients after hospital discharge, internet base rehabilitation will be used in this study. participants will be randomized in two pulmonary tele-rehabilitation groups after hospital discharge. One group will be received pulmonary rehabilitation include education, breathing exercises, aerobic and upper and lower limbs muscle strengthening exercises. Another group will be perform progressive muscle relaxation in addition of these exercise. Treatment duration is 6 week with 5 days/week frequency. Two exercise sessions per week will be supervised with expert physiotherapist via videoconferencing. Outcomes will be measured at baseline, within two week and at the end of six week exercises program.

Interventions

pulmonary telerehabilitation program include breathing exercise,aerobics exercise and upper and lower limbs muscle strengthening exercise

summarized Jacobson progressive muscle relaxation training method

Sponsors

Iran University of Medical Sciences
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
DOUBLE (Subject, Outcomes Assessor)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 65 Years
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* Covid 19 patient that confirmed with polymerase chain reaction test (PCR) * Hospitalized Corvid 19 patients after discharge * Accessibility to internet and using video call

Exclusion criteria

* Mental and physical disability * Uncontrolled cardiac dysfunction such as arrhythmia * Sever neurological condition such as guillain-barre and stroke * Uncontrolled diabetes or blood pressure * Pregnant women * Re-hospitalization during treatment program * Chronic pulmonary and kidney condition

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Functional capacitychange from baseline in 6MWT at 2 and 6 weekssix minute walk test (6MWT)

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
dyspneachange from baseline in Borg scale at 2 and 6 weeksBorg scale, The borg scale is a self-rating tool to measure the degree of breathlessness on a scale from 0 to 10, higher score mean worse dyspnea
Sleep qualitychange from baseline in PSQI at 6 weekpetersburg sleep quality index (PSQI), PSQI is a eighteen item scale.The total scores range is 0-21. A higher score indicates a worse sleep quality.
anxiety and depressionchange from baseline in HADS at 6 weekhospital anxiety and depression scale (HADS), HADS is a fourteen item scale. Seven of the items relate to anxiety and seven relate to depression.The total scores range is 0-21 for both depression and anxiety scores. A higher score indicates a worse depression and anxiety.

Other

MeasureTime frameDescription
fatiguechange from baseline in FSS at 2 and 6 weeksfatigue severity scale (FSS). FSS is nine item scale. the total score range is 1-7. a higher score indicates a worse fatigue severity.
Quality of life and well-beingchange from baseline in SF36 at 6 weekQuality of life will measure using SF-36 questionnaire, SF-36 is a 36 item scale.The total scores range is 0-100. A higher score indicates a better quality of life.
health statuschange from baseline in SGRQ at 6 weekSt. George's Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ), Three component scores are calculated for the SGRQ (symptom,activity, impact). Scores are expressed as a percentage of overall impairment where 100 represents worst possible health status and 0 indicates best possible health status.

Countries

Iran

Outcome results

None listed

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