A Home-based Physical Activity Programme for Patients With Advanced Interstitial Lung Diseases (iLiFE)

Summary

Interstitial lung diseases (ILD) are a highly incapacitating group of chronic respiratory diseases, leading to disabling symptoms and impaired capacity to perform activities of daily living and health-related quality of life (HRQoL). It is known that people with ILD are highly inactive and sedentary, and in a severe stage of the disease, these people spend most of the time at home, increasing dependency on others, and decrease HRQoL. Physical activity is a cost-effective intervention, which increases the HRQoL, exercise capacity and ability to perform activities of daily living in people with chronic respiratory diseases. However, few home-based physical activity programmes are available, especially in people with ILD. Thus, it is urgent to develop innovative models of PA, closer to patients and adjusted to the patients' routines, to engage and change patients' physical activity levels, enhancing HRQoL.

iLiFE might be promising as it focuses on establishing new behaviours, within selected contexts to stimulate home-based PA. Therefore, iLiFE will be developed, implemented and evaluated in people with ILD.

Conditions

• Interstitial Lung Diseases (ILD)

Interventions

OTHER

Home-based physical activity programme

iLiFE is a 12-week individualised programme, adapted to the participants' needs and preferences. This programme will be conducted in participants' home and include everyday tasks to train endurance, balance, flexibility and strength. The intervention incudes face-to-face sessions and phone calls. Face-to-face sessions aim to adapt activities to everyday tasks, increase frequency and/or intensity, monitor progress, clarify doubts, motivate higher daily energy expenditure and manage expectations. Phone-calls aim to clarify doubts and to monitor patients' motivation/evolution, following a motivational interview. At the start of the program, the physiotherapist will be present at all sessions, but these face-to-face visits will decrease over time. Patients will also receive a personalised manual (iLiFE manual) with activities to do in their everyday tasks.

OTHER

Usual care

Participants will receive a leaflet with exercises and PA recommendations.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

  collaborator OTHER

• Centro Hospitalar do Baixo Vouga

  collaborator OTHER

• Aveiro University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Alda S. Marques, PhD · 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

2020-10-01

Primary Completion

2024-01-09

Completion

2024-01-09

Countries

• Portugal

Study Locations