Open clinical trial with 1 year follow up comparing the impact of an Early Respiratory Rehabilitation program with the conventional Respiratory Rehabilitation in COPD re-admitted patients. Outcomes will be exacerbations, symptoms, functional capacity and quality of life related to health (HRQOL).
Open clinical trial with 1 year follow up comparing the impact of an Early Respiratory Rehabilitation (ERR) program with the conventional Respiratory Rehabilitation (CRR) in COPD re-admitted patients. Outcomes will be exacerbations, symptoms, functional capacity and quality of life related to health (HRQOL). Sixty patients will be randomized into the two groups: ERR starts the program during admission and continues at home immediately after discharge for a period of 3 months; CRR was started at home one month after discharge from hospital and continues for 3 months. Recruitment of patients and starting the RR program will occur in the first year. In the second year we will continue the intervention to those who have not completed the year. Follow-up will last until the completion of the year of all patients.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
39
Servicio de Neumología Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau
Barcelona, Spain
Exacerbations
Exacerbations with or without admission due to respiratory illness
Time frame: 1 year
Dyspnea
dyspnea in activities of daily living measured by the area of the dyspnea in the original CRQ questionnaire
Time frame: 1 year
Functional capacity
Exercise capacity with the six minutes walk test
Time frame: 1 year
Quality of life related to health
Quality of life related to health from self-administered CAT and CRC questionnaires
Time frame: 1 year
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