Pulmonary Rehabilitation and Smoking

NCT ID: NCT03671187

Last Updated: 2018-09-17

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 31 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2015-01-31
• Study Completion Date: 2018-08-31

Brief Summary

Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is known to reduce dyspnea, increase exercise capacity, reduce psychological symptoms and improve quality of life in COPD patients. Some patients continue to smoke despite their illness. Smoking does not create a contraindication to PR. There is insufficient evidence on the effectiveness of PR programs in smoking COPD patients. The purpose of this study, PR completed the program to determine the effectiveness of PR smoker COPD patients.

Detailed Description

Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is known to reduce dyspnea, increase exercise capacity, reduce psychological symptoms and improve quality of life in COPD patients. Some patients continue to smoke despite their illness. Smoking does not create a contraindication to PR. There is insufficient evidence on the effectiveness of PR programs in smoking COPD patients. The purpose of this study, PR completed the program to determine the effectiveness of PR smoker COPD patients. People who have completed the PR program, smoking and not smoking will be included into the study.

Data of carbon monoxide diffusion test, body plethysmography, 6-min walk test, blood gas analysis, mMRC dyspnea scale, hospital anxiety depression scale, SGRQ and SF-36 quality of life questionnaire performed before and after the program will be analyzed.

Conditions

Smoking; Rehabilitation; Tobacco Use

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NON_RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Smoking

8 week exercise program consists of breathing exercises, strength training and endurance training

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Exercise

Intervention Type: OTHER

8 week exercise program

Ex- Smoking

8 week exercise program consists of breathing exercises, strength training and endurance training

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Exercise

Intervention Type: OTHER

8 week exercise program

Interventions

Exercise

8 week exercise program

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• COPD patients completed 8 PR program

Exclusion Criteria

• Never smoked patients
• Participated PR program in last year

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Izmir Katip Celebi University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Ilknur Naz

Asst. Prof.

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Other Identifiers

IKCU

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id