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Motivational Program on Physical Activity in Cardio-respiratory Patients: an RCT Study

NCT05318482 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 50

Last updated 2024-11-07

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Summary

According to actual scientific evidence, the interventions on the general population aiming at regular physical activity are one of the most efficient strategies for health improvement. Regardless of this evidence, there is a large part of the elderly population does not adhere to the recommendations of the international guidelines on daily physical activity.

This is even more evident in patients with chronic respiratory and cardiological disease because exercise exacerbates existing symptoms of breathlessness.

This study aims to evaluate the impact of an in-hospital motivational program dedicated to increasing physical activity. With the data of an electronic wristwatch that keeps records of movement, the health professionals incentive an increase in physical activity leading to long term behavioural changes (evaluated by the number of steps per day) in hospitalized patients with COPD and HF, which already perform a standard rehabilitation program (14 sessions).

Conditions

  • Cardiorespiratory Failure

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Motivational group

In addition to the activities of the usual rehabilitation program, the PT will perform a daily motivational session of 15 minutes in a 1 patient: 1 physiotherapist modality. On that occasion, the patient will report the number of steps performed the previous day; the physiotherapist will check and promote the increase of 10% in the number of steps for the next day. If the patient fails to achieve the goal, the PT will analyze the reasons with the patient, in order to facilitate the achievement of the goal. The PT will advise on the time and place to perform physical activity and the patients will receive a diary to record his/her progress (number of steps and heart rate, Borg Fatigue and Borg Dyspnea before and after an exercise task). The PT will record all these evaluations on an excel database.

OTHER

Control group

Besides the activities of the usual rehabilitation program, the patients of this group will be provided by the PT only with the generic recommendations of daily exercise during the in-hospital stay

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri SpA

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Michele Vitacca, MD · Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-03-23
Primary Completion
2024-06-01
Completion
2024-07-31

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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