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Pulmonary Rehabilitation at Home Versus at the Gymnasium

NCT00169897 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 252

Last updated 2010-11-15

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Summary

Short term efficacy of pulmonary rehabilitation for improving functional capacity and quality of life of chronic obstructive respiratory disease (COPD) patient is well known. However, there is an important gap between the scientific knowledge and the clinical use of pulmonary rehabilitation since a a very small number of patients benefit from this therapeutic intervention. We estimate that less than 1% of the 750 000 canadians suffering from COPD have access to a pulmonary rehabilitation program. We want to study the efficacy of a home-based rehabilitation program as a way to facilitate the access to rehabilitation.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Pulmonary rehabilitation (teaching and exercise)

After a 4-week education program, patients took part to home-based rehabilitation or outpatient hospital-based rehabilitation for 8 weeks. Patients were subsequently followed for 40 weeks to complete the one-year study.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

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  • Fonds de la Recherche en Santé du Québec

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  • Laval University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Francois Maltais, MD · Laval University - Hopital Laval

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
40 Years
Max Age
95 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2004-01-31
Primary Completion
2007-01-31
Completion
2007-01-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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