PICk-UP: PersonalIsed CommUnity-based Physical Activities for Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Summary

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a major individual, social and economic burden worldwide. Pulmonary rehabilitation is a fundamental evidence-based intervention to manage COPD. However, pulmonary rehabilitation benefits tend to decline over time and sustaining a long-term physical activity lifestyle is challenging, leading to worse health-related quality of life. Personalised post-pulmonary rehabilitation programmes, combining different physical activities modalities with social interaction, are warranted to enable a shift from a disease-based to a patient-centred model and encourage a sustainable behavioural change. Although such programmes have the potential to sustain pulmonary rehabilitation benefits and promote patients' long-term adherence to physical activity, their availability within the community is scarce. Hence, the investigators will implement a personalised community-based physical activity programme (PICk UP), using the available resources, adapted to patient's needs/preferences. PICk UP will be a sustainable response to support healthy lifestyles and enhance pulmonary rehabilitation benefits of respiratory patients, by integrating them within the community and embracing urban facilities.

The aim of this study is to assess the effectiveness of PICk UP, a personalised community-based physical activity programme, tailored to patients' needs and preferences, on their physical activity levels.

It is expected that PICk UP will empower patients to remain physically active and foster the maintenance of pulmonary rehabilitation benefits.

Conditions

• COPD

Interventions

OTHER

Community-based physical activity programme

After completing a pulmonary rehabilitation programme, participants will enrol a 6-months personalised community-based physical activity programme, which will include 2 sessions/week, with the aerobic training being the cornerstone. Patients will receive the PICk UP manual and a diary to register their physical activities. During the 1st month the physiotherapist will guide patients through 4 types of outdoors and indoors physical activities. Patients will then be asked to choose and commit to 1 or 2 activities, according to their preferences, which they shall integrate for another 5 months. During this period, the support provided by physiotherapist will decrease over time.

OTHER

Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Patients will receive the same pulmonary rehabilitation programme as the experimental group, i.e., exercise training twice a week and education and psychosocial support once every other week, which integrates physical activity recommendations.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

  collaborator OTHER

• Câmara Municipal de Aveiro

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Câmara Municipal de Estarreja

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Centro Hospitalar do Baixo Vouga

  collaborator OTHER

• Administração Regional de Saúde do Centro

  collaborator OTHER

• Escola Superior de Saúde da Universidade de Aveiro

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Instituto de Biomedicina da Universidade de Aveiro

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Aveiro University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Alda S. Marques · : School of Health Sciences of the University of Aveiro (ESSUA)

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2020-02-05

Primary Completion

2023-01-31

Completion

2023-01-31

Countries

• Portugal

Study Locations