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Behavioral Intervention to Maintain Physical Capacity and Activity in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

NCT01539434 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 100

Last updated 2017-05-19

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate to what extent patients with COPD, who have participated in physical training for 12 weeks, can maintain their physical activity behaviour and physical capacity on a long-term basis if they get a behavioural medicine intervention.

Conditions

  • Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Behavioural intervention

Patients in the behavioural intervention group will get a personal meeting with the physiotherapist and get advice about the value of physical activity and also get recommendations on how to be physically active. The behavioural intervention to support physical activity behaviour includes weekly motivational interviewing telephone calls for the first month, two telephone calls for the following two months and thereafter monthly telephone calls.

BEHAVIORAL

Usual care group

Patients in the usual care group will get a personal meeting with the physiotherapist and get advice about the value of physical activity and also get recommendations on how to be physically active.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Umeå University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Uppsala University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Margareta Emtner, PhD · Uppsala University

  • Karin Wadell, PhD · Umeå University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-09-30
Primary Completion
2018-12-31
Completion
2020-12-31

Countries

  • Sweden

Study Locations

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