Maintenance Schedules Following Pulmonary Rehabilitation

NCT ID: NCT00925171

Last Updated: 2011-08-04

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

PHASE2

Total Enrollment

128 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2009-06-30

Study Completion Date

2012-06-30

Brief Summary

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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a preventable and treatable condition, is a major healthcare problem with huge human and economic costs. It affects 3 million people, results in 1.4 million consultations, causes 30,000 deaths, and costs £800M per year in the UK. Considerable research expenditure is devoted to finding new and expensive interventions. However pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is an available therapeutic option with good evidence of benefit for patients in terms of quality of life and daily functioning.

The primary objective of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of the addition of a maintenance programme following pulmonary rehabilitation in patients with COPD when compared to standard care.

The secondary objective is to identify baseline characteristics that will predict improvement in pulmonary rehabilitation programmes and adherence to maintenance strategies. By measuring a series of demographic, clinical, physiological, psychological and biochemical parameters the researchers hope to be able to predict those patients who are likely to receive the greatest benefit from pulmonary rehabilitation.

An additional objective will be to prepare a detailed maintenance programme manual. This will be available to other centres providing pulmonary rehabilitation at the conclusion of the study

Detailed Description

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This will be a randomised, controlled, parallel study of a maintenance pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) programme in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Following successful completion of a PR programme in Norwich(see below) patients will be randomised to receive maintenance PR or standard medical care.

Prior to enrolment in the PR programme, patients will undergo standard baseline assessments, after providing informed consent. These will include a medical examination, demographic details, past medical history, spirometry, an incremental shuttle walk test (ISWT) to determine a predicted maximum oxygen consumption, an endurance shuttle walk test (ESWT) at 85% of predicted maximum oxygen consumption (V02), chronic respiratory questionnaire (CRQ), EuroQol (EQ5D), hospital anxiety and depression score (HADS), serum interleukin(IL)-6 and C-reactive protein (CRP), body mass index (BMI), skinfold thickness and muscle strength.

At the end of PR and twelve months following PR patients will undergo medical examination, ESWT at 85% of predicted maximum VO2, CRQ, EQ5D, HADS, serum interleukin(IL)-6 and CRP, BMI, skinfold thickness and muscle strength and an assessment of activity in the preceding month.

At 3 months, 6 months and 9 months following PR patients will complete the CRQ and a questionnaire to assess activity in the preceding month. These will be undertaken by postal questionnaire.

Baseline socioeconomic and costs questionnaire will be completed at entry to the PR and follow-up cost questionnaires will be completed following PR and after 3, 6, 9 and 12 months. Patients will be given a diary card on which to record NHS contacts, prescriptions etc at all visits.

The 3, 6 and 9-month questionnaires will be collected by post.

Conditions

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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Pulmonary Rehabilitation Group

Intervention with exercise management

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Pulmonary Intervention

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Maintenance programme of 2 hours duration, every 3 months. During the first hour patients will describe the extent to which they have been able to continue with their exercises at home on an individual basis and ways of enhancing adherence to this training will be discussed. Positive re-enforcement will be provided. Patients with suspected depression or social isolation will be referred to their GP for additional management. Patients will be advised on dyspnoea management strategies, especially controlled breathing combined with supervised activity exertion on activities relevant to their daily living. This will be followed by 1 hour of supervised strength and endurance training including walking, cycling, standing from sitting, arm exercises using dumbbells and step-ups. Patients will receive a written report on their progress by their physician and copied to their GP. This will be in addition to the standard advice given to the control group.

Control Group

Patients will receive the standard advice to undertake strength and endurance exercises at home and invitation to attend the Norwich Breath Easy Group

Patients will be stratified according to whether the initial programme took place in the outpatient hospital or community setting

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Pulmonary Intervention

Maintenance programme of 2 hours duration, every 3 months. During the first hour patients will describe the extent to which they have been able to continue with their exercises at home on an individual basis and ways of enhancing adherence to this training will be discussed. Positive re-enforcement will be provided. Patients with suspected depression or social isolation will be referred to their GP for additional management. Patients will be advised on dyspnoea management strategies, especially controlled breathing combined with supervised activity exertion on activities relevant to their daily living. This will be followed by 1 hour of supervised strength and endurance training including walking, cycling, standing from sitting, arm exercises using dumbbells and step-ups. Patients will receive a written report on their progress by their physician and copied to their GP. This will be in addition to the standard advice given to the control group.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Male or female, aged more than 35 years
* Physician labelled diagnosis of COPD, emphysema or chronic bronchitis
* Ex or current smoker of more than 20 pack years
* FEV1 less than 80% of predicted
* Patients may be taking long or short acting bronchodilators and/or inhaled or oral corticosteroids and/or theophyllines.
* Patients having attended at least 60% of the exercise sessions in the initial PR(22)\* \* This is an inclusion criterion for randomisation to receive maintenance PR or standard medical care but not entry into the study

Exclusion Criteria

* Significant cardiac or pulmonary disease other than COPD such that COPD is the minor contribution to the patients' symptoms.
* Myocardial infarction within the previous 6 months or unstable angina
* Respiratory infection defined as cough, antibiotic use or purulent sputum within 4 weeks prior to randomisation.
* Severe or uncontrolled co-morbid disease, which is likely to affect the outcome of the study.
* Abnormalities in cognitive functioning that would limit the patient's ability to undertake the procedures required in the study.
* Unable to give written informed consent.
Minimum Eligible Age

35 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

65 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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University of East Anglia

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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University of East Anglia

Principal Investigators

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Andrew Wilson, MD MRCP (UK)

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Clinical Senior Lecturer, University of East Anglia

Locations

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Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital

Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom

Site Status

University of East Anglia

Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom

Site Status

Countries

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United Kingdom

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Other Identifiers

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09/H0304/40

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Identifier Source: secondary_id

2009RESP05

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