Fan Therapy in COPD Patients

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

14 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2017-05-24

Study Completion Date

2017-07-26

Brief Summary

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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a common smoking related lung disease. The main symptom in breathlessness.

Pulmonary Rehabilitation (PR) - a supervised group exercise and education class - is an effective intervention in COPD to reduce symptoms, improve exercise performance and prevent exacerbations. However some COPD patients are unable to to effectively exercise as they are limited by their breathlessness, despite optimal medical management. By reducing their physical activity to avoid the onset of breathlessness, they become deconditioned and then further attempts at exercise make them more breathless, leading to an inactivity cycle.

There is a growing evidence base regarding the use of hand hold fan therapy or air therapy to relieve breathlessness at rest. Limited studies have looked at the use of fan therapy during exercise, and its role on exercise capacity and recovery time, provisional results which indicate it may also be useful during activity. Logically you might expect patients who are less breathless to be able to exercise more, or recover quicker.

This study aims to investigate the effects a hand held fan will have on sensation of breathlessness and exercise capacity in patients with COPD. This will involve participants undertaking a standardised field walking test ( 6 minute walk test) with and with out the fan and then comparing the distance covered and how they felt during and after exercise. This will better inform how we structure exercise and advice to these patients in the future to empower patients limited by breathlessness.

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Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Breathlessness

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

CROSSOVER

Single Centre Pilot study using a randomised controlled crossover design (aka randomised A-B single-subject design).

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Hand Held Fan Therapy

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Hand Held Fan Therapy

Intervention Type DEVICE

Hand-Held fan therapy used to generate airflow directed to face during specific exercise test

No Intervention

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Hand Held Fan Therapy

Hand-Held fan therapy used to generate airflow directed to face during specific exercise test

Intervention Type DEVICE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (Forced Expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1)/Vital capacity ratio \< 70%, with an observed respiratory impairment ( Global initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) stage II-IV: \< 79% FEV1 predicted)
* Age \> 18 years old
* Exertional breathlessness with a Medical Research Council (MRC) breathlessness scale greater of equal to 2

Exclusion Criteria

* Recent exacerbation of COPD symptoms requiring antibiotics within the preceding 4 weeks
* Significant cardiovascular or peripheral disease that could influence exercise tolerance and ability to perform exercise test
* Unable to hold fan to face and mobilise
* On Long Term Oxygen Therapy or fulfils criteria for ambulatory oxygen
* Lack of English Language Competency

Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No