Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Conditions
Interventions
This is a randomized controlled clinical study with two arms that will be conducted on 50 participants with COPD. The participants will be randomized 1:1 into intervention and control groups through t
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Sponsors
Departamento de Fisioterapia da Universidade Federal de São Carlos
Departamento de Fisioterapia da Universidade Federal de São Carlos
Eligibility
Age
50 Years to No maximum
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Patients of both genders diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - COPD, with a relationship between forced expiratory volume in one second and forced vital capacity less than 0.70; being clinically stable in the last four weeks; under medical follow-up and drug treatment; absence of participation in physical training programs in the last six months; age equal or over fifty years old; functional participants however with exercise capacity assessed by the six minute step test and/or six-minute walk test with values ??below eighty percent of predicted; without cognitive deficit assessed by the Mini Mental State Examination - MMSE questionnaire; without changes in balance assessed by the short physical performance battery and acceptance to participate in the study
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Intentional tremor; treatment of malignant neoplasm; body mass index above thirty five; rheumatic, neuromuscular, orthopedic and visual problems that make it impossible to walk or go up and down steps; unstable cardiovascular and respiratory diseases; and conditions that prevent testing and withdrawal from participation
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| It is expected a change in physical activity level by increasing step count by six hundred to one thousand one hundred assessed by the actigraph, and changes in motivational regulation and self-efficacy in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease assessed by Behavioural Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire 3 and Pulmonary Rehabilitation Adapted Index of Self-efficacy. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| It is expected a reduction in sedentary behaviour time , and an adaptation of ventilatory and cardiac responses, during daily physical activity of those who receive the physical training associated with behavior change tecniques with a motivational approach for twelve weeks | — |
Countries
Brazil
Contacts
Public ContactValéria Di Lorenzo
Universidade Federal de São Carlos
Outcome results
None listed