The Effectiveness Pulmonary Telerehabilitation and Cognitive Telerehabilitation in COPD Patients

Summary

The aim of our study is to compare the effectiveness of the supervized pulmonary telerehabilitation program and the cognitive telerehabilitation method, which includes pulmonary telerehabilitation methods, in patients with severe stage COPD who have difficulty exercising heavily. The effects of pulmonary and cognitive rehabilitation on dyspnea, muscle strength, functional capacity, quality of life, anxiety and depression levels in this patient group will be examined.

The number of studies in the literature in which the pulmonary rehabilitation program was applied as telerehabilitation is insufficient. Considering that this patient group is not motivated and has difficulty in exercising, motor imagery and movement observation methods from cognitive rehabilitation methods may be alternative methods for these patients. Although these methods have been very popular in recent years in terms of researching and demonstrating their effectiveness in various patient groups in the literature, no study has been found in which the effects of these methods have been applied in pulmonary disease groups. This study aims to contribute to the serious gap in the literature on the application of pulmonary telerehabilitation and its effectiveness, and to be an original study by investigating the effectiveness of motor imagery and action observation, which are popular rehabilitation methods of recent years, in COPD patients in the pulmonary disease group for the first time.

Conditions

• Severe Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
• Dyspnea
• Muscle Weakness
• Fatigue
• Quality of Life
• Muscle Strength
• Motor Imagery
• Functional Capacity
• Muscle; Accessory
• Respiratory Disease
• Pulmonary Disease
• COPD

Interventions

OTHER

Supervised Pulmonary Telerehabilitation

For pulmonary rehabilitation to be applied in the simultaneous telerehabilitation method, digital blood pressure measurement device, digital finger pulse oximeter device will be given to severe COPD patients for safe exercise and they will be informed about confidence intervals and how to use saturation and heart rate monitors. The relevant program and points to be considered will be delivered to the patients in the form of an online PDF brochure.

OTHER

Cognitive Telerehabilitation

These patients will be asked to do a standardized pulmonary telerehabilitation program three times a week for 8 weeks by watching videos consisting of commands and exercise videos transmitted to them, some of them by actively doing, imagining.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Saglik Bilimleri Universitesi

  lead OTHER

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

2022-01-31

Primary Completion

2023-02-24

Completion

2023-02-24

Countries

• Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations