The Influence of Telerehabilitation Focused on Respiratory Muscle Training

NCT ID: NCT05533151

Last Updated: 2022-09-08

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: UNKNOWN
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 60 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2022-07-01
• Study Completion Date: 2023-06-01

Brief Summary

Pulmonary rehabilitation, which includes respiratory muscle training, is effective in improving the functional status of patients with various types of the respiratory system diseases, including bronchial asthma, interstitial lung diseases or lung transplant patients.

However, availability of pulmonary rehabilitation is limited in the Czech Republic. Nowadays even more due to the Covid-19 pandemic. A suitable instrument of increasing its accessibility is telerehabilitation using modern technologies. The main goal of this project is to evaluate the patients' functional status after completing a standardized cycle of pulmonary rehabilitation focused on respiratory muscle training conducted as telerehabilitation sessions and compare the effect of this intervention with a different group of patients who will undergo an education session led by a trained physiotherapist followed by self-directed exercise according to an exercise brochure.

Detailed Description

The study will include patients with the following respiratory system diseases: bronchial asthma, interstitial lung diseases (sarcoidosis, pulmonary fibrosis, etc.) and patients after lung transplantation enrolled in outpatient care by the attending physician.

All these patients must meet inclusion criteria, such as: stable disease status, no exacerbation within last 2 months. Patients with comorbidities (rheumatological, neurological, psychiatric, etc.) preventing them from being enrolled in a pulmonary rehabilitation program will be excluded from the study. All study participants will be divided into 3 groups according to their lung disease. Each group should contain 20 patients, who will be randomly split into an intervention and a control group of 10 patients each. The course of lung disease, its symptoms, medication, and the patient's functional status will be determined in detail. The following parameters will be objectively evaluated: lung function and respiratory muscle strength, exercise tolerance, chest expansion, dyspnoea, fatigue, anxiety and depression, quality of life in relation to lung disease and physical activity. The patients will be examined using spirometry, Modified Medical Research Council Dyspnea Scale, the Multidimensional Assessment of Fatigue Scale, self-report Beck Depression Inventory-II scale for adults and St. George's Respiratory Questionnaire examining the quality of life in relation to lung disease. Exercise tolerance testing will be performed through a 1-minute Sit-to-stand test. The level of physical activity will be examined using Axivity AX3 accelerometers, which the patient will wear for 7 days after the initial assessment, which will take place in one day. There will always be a long enough rest between examinations, so that fatigue cannot affect the course of the measurement. All assessments are non-invasive, and all the mentioned test methods are standardized and commonly used in patients with diseases of the respiratory system according to the recommendations of the Czech Pneumological and Phthisiological Society and the European Respiratory Society. All patients will be initially educated by a physiotherapist and instructed to independently perform the home exercise program including respiratory muscle training. This program will also include breathing exercises to correct the breathing pattern, exercises to strengthen the upper and lower limbs muscles, balance exercises and recommendations for endurance training. Respiratory muscle training will be performed using the Airofit PRO device. This breathing device can be set to a suitable resistance for both inhale and exhale to increase the strength of the inspiratory and expiratory muscles. Airofit PRO device can also be connected to an application in a smartphone, which records the ongoing results of the training as well as the frequency of the device use. This is a great starting point for its implementation within a telerehabilitation program, as well as for its self-directed use. The intervention group will perform the home exercise program independently with the use of an exercise brochure and at the same time with the support of telerehabilitation lessons with a physiotherapist twice a week via Zoom meeting. The control group will continue in a separate program according to the exercise brochure. To ensure a correct exercise performance all exercises in the exercise brochure will be individually practiced by a trained physiotherapist with each patient from both groups during the initial assessment. The assessment day will be divided into two parts:

1. all assessments in the morning; 2. exercise brochure introduction in the afternoon to avoid fatigue of patients. The final assessment will take place 6 weeks after the initial one. It will be exactly the same as the first one.

Conditions

Telerehabilitation

Study Design

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

Study Groups

Bronchial asthma

This group envolves parients suffering from bronchial asthma.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Respiratory muscle training

Intervention Type: DEVICE

All patients will be initially educated by a physiotherapist and instructed to independently perform the home exercise program including respiratory muscle training. The training will be performed using the Airofit PRO device. This breathing training on a suitable resistance will be performed twice a day for 6 weeks. The intervention will be conducted under a researcher's supervision via smartphone App.

Interstitial lung diseases

This group envolves parients suffering from interstitial lung disease.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Respiratory muscle training

Intervention Type: DEVICE

All patients will be initially educated by a physiotherapist and instructed to independently perform the home exercise program including respiratory muscle training. The training will be performed using the Airofit PRO device. This breathing training on a suitable resistance will be performed twice a day for 6 weeks. The intervention will be conducted under a researcher's supervision via smartphone App.

Lung transplantation

This group envolves parients after lung transplantation done for a pulmonary disease.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Respiratory muscle training

Intervention Type: DEVICE

All patients will be initially educated by a physiotherapist and instructed to independently perform the home exercise program including respiratory muscle training. The training will be performed using the Airofit PRO device. This breathing training on a suitable resistance will be performed twice a day for 6 weeks. The intervention will be conducted under a researcher's supervision via smartphone App.

Interventions

Respiratory muscle training

All patients will be initially educated by a physiotherapist and instructed to independently perform the home exercise program including respiratory muscle training. The training will be performed using the Airofit PRO device. This breathing training on a suitable resistance will be performed twice a day for 6 weeks. The intervention will be conducted under a researcher's supervision via smartphone App.

Intervention Type: DEVICE

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• diagnosis of bronchial asthma
• diagnosis of interstitial lung disease
• post-lung-transplantation statust
• stable disease status
• no exacerbation within last 2 months.

Exclusion Criteria

• serious comorbidities (rheumatological, neurological, psychiatric, etc.)
• other respiratory lung disease than the specified ones
• contraindication for respiratory muscle training.

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

Sponsors

Palacky University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Zdenek Svoboda

Assoc. Prof. Zdenek Svoboda, Ph.D.

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Katerina Raisova, Assoc.Prof.

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Palacký University, Olomouc

Locations

Faculty of Physical Culture, Palacky University Olomouc

Olomouc, , Czechia

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

Czechia

Central Contacts

Zdenek Svoboda, Assoc.Prof.

Role: CONTACT

zdenek.svoboda@upol.cz

+420585636414

Martin Dvoracek, MSc.

Role: CONTACT

martin.dvoracek01@upol.cz

+420604585149

Facility Contacts

Zdenek Svoboda, Ph.D.

Role: primary

zdenek.svoboda@upol.cz

+420585636414

Miroslav Janura, Prof.

Role: backup

miroslav.janura@upol.cz

+420585636400

Other Identifiers

DSGC-2021-0156

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id