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Breathlessness During Exercise: Experience and Memory

NCT03458182 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 92

Last updated 2019-09-18

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Summary

Breathlessness during exertion is a major limiting factor for patients' physical capacity and activity. Increased exertional breathlessness often results in impaired activity, spiraling deconditioning and further worsening of exertional breathlessness, quality of life and prognosis.

Recalled symptoms (from memory) can differ substantially from the actually experienced symptoms.The recall of symptom intensity is affected by several factors including the experienced peak intensity and the intensity at the end of the episode. This 'Peak-end-rule' has been reported in studies of pain, and in breathlessness in daily life and during exercise. A randomized trial reported that adding a time period with decreased pain at the end of a colonoscopy decreased the patient's recalled total pain of the event, improved their overall perception of the event and made them more willing to participate in similar procedures in the future.

Pulmonary rehabilitation training is the first line treatment for exertional breathlessness and deconditioning in cardiorespiratory disease. However, the training as well as physical activities of daily life are often limited by the person's perception of his/her capacity, which is based on recalled breathlessness during exertion. The person's predicted breathlessness - that is, the level of breathlessness that the person predicts will occur during a future activity, is likely a major determinant of his/her willingness to participate in training as well as of the level of physical activity in daily life.

To improve the effectiveness of cardio-pulmonary rehabilitation training and the patients' health status, new approaches for decreasing the perceived exertional breathlessness and optimize training are needed.

The investigators hypothesize that adding a period of lower breathlessness intensity at the end of training might be a way to manipulate the recalled (remembered) symptom intensity during the training, and to improve the subject's perceived future exercise capacity and willingness to participate in physical exercise/ training.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Added exercise

After completion of the standard exercise test, an intervention period of 2 minutes of low intensity exercise is added.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Magnus Ekström

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Magnus Ekström, MD,PhD · Lund University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-03-01
Primary Completion
2018-12-31
Completion
2018-12-31

Countries

  • Sweden

Study Locations

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