Impact of pulmonary rehabilitation programme for COPD patients

Effect of Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation Training added to Pulmonary Rehabilitation on psychosocial outcomes

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

PACTR

Registry ID

PACTR201711002731292

Enrollment

Registered

2017-10-30

Start date

2017-06-05

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2026-08-03

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Conditions

Respiratory chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Interventions

neuromuscular electro stimulation added to pulmoanary rehabilitation

PR group

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

Male

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: (1) stable COPD patients, absence of other obstructive disease (asthma, bronchiectasis...) and (3) lack of musculoskeletal or neurologic conditions that might affect their exercise performance, symptomatic cardiac disease, or previous lung surgery

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Individuals who smoke and those who run significant response to bronchodilators, defined as an increase in forced expiratory volume in 1 second over 12% from predicted values were excluded from our study.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
6-Minutes Walking Test (6MWT) and psychosocial tests	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
spirometry	—

Countries

Tunisia

Contacts

Public ContactYassine Trabelsi

Department of Physiology and Lung Function Testing University of Sousse

trabelsiyassine@yahoo.fr+21620202963

Outcome results

None listed

Source: PACTR (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Aug 9, 2026