Chair-based and Standard Exercise Programs in People With COPD

NCT ID: NCT06201299

Last Updated: 2025-05-01

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 64 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2024-01-20
• Study Completion Date: 2025-12-01

Brief Summary

Patients who are diagnosed with COPD by a pulmonology specialist and referred to pulmonary rehabilitation will be included in the study. Cases that meet the inclusion criteria will be randomized and divided into two groups, standard exercise program group (SGr) and chair-based exercise. program group will be called (ChGr). While standard exercises will be given to SGr, chair-based exercises will be applied to ChGr. All evaluation and initial training sessions of the cases will be held in the hospital. Apart from this, they will be asked to do their exercises at home with the exercise videos that will be sent to them. In order to ensure that home exercises are performed completely and correctly, 2 sessions of online simultaneous exercise training will be provided with a physiotherapist via videoconference on a smartphone, and exercise follow-ups will be carried out by calling once a week. The program duration is 8 weeks, 5 days a week.

Conditions

COPD; Pulmonary Rehabilitation; Exercise

Study Design

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

Study Groups

Chair-based Exercise Group

Exercises will be performed with chair support.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Chair-based Exercise Program

Intervention Type: OTHER

The program content consists of breathing exercises and chair-supported exercises. Chest, abdominal and lateral basal breathing exercises will be performed 10 times each. Chair exercises are given in the exercise brochure. Exercises are performed with a chair support or sitting on a chair. In addition, patients will be asked to walk 30 minutes a day on flat ground at 60% workload, for periods calculated according to the 6-minute walk test results (land-based walking).

Standard Exercise Group

Exercises will be performed using theraband.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Standard Exercise Program

Intervention Type: OTHER

The program content consists of breathing exercises, upper and lower extremity strengthening with theraband and self-walking. Chest, abdominal and lateral basal breathing exercises will be performed 10 times each. Resistance exercises will be performed as strengthening exercises for the major muscle groups of the upper and lower extremities using medium-hard theraband. Patients will be asked to walk 30 minutes a day on flat ground at 60% workload, for periods calculated according to the 6-minute walk test results (land-based walking).

Interventions

Standard Exercise Program

The program content consists of breathing exercises, upper and lower extremity strengthening with theraband and self-walking. Chest, abdominal and lateral basal breathing exercises will be performed 10 times each. Resistance exercises will be performed as strengthening exercises for the major muscle groups of the upper and lower extremities using medium-hard theraband. Patients will be asked to walk 30 minutes a day on flat ground at 60% workload, for periods calculated according to the 6-minute walk test results (land-based walking).

Intervention Type: OTHER

Chair-based Exercise Program

The program content consists of breathing exercises and chair-supported exercises. Chest, abdominal and lateral basal breathing exercises will be performed 10 times each. Chair exercises are given in the exercise brochure. Exercises are performed with a chair support or sitting on a chair. In addition, patients will be asked to walk 30 minutes a day on flat ground at 60% workload, for periods calculated according to the 6-minute walk test results (land-based walking).

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Being between the ages of 18-75 years
• Having a diagnosis of COPD diagnosed according to clinical diagnostic criteria according to the American Thoracic and European Respiratory Societies (ATS-ERS).
• Presence of dyspnea on exertion
• Stable clinical status at inclusion without infection or exacerbation in the previous 4 weeks *Having smart phone usage skills

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients with severe comorbid diseases, unstable coronary artery disease, collagen vascular diseases and requiring high-flow oxygen therapy (˃ 3-4 L\min).
• A history of exertional syncope or the presence of any comorbidities (such as severe orthopedic or neurological deficits or unstable heart disease) that preclude exercise training.
• Having participated in a pulmonary rehabilitation program within the last 12 months.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 75 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Istanbul Medipol University Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

esra pehlivan

Assoc. Prof. Dr.

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Yedikule Chest Disease Hospital

Istanbul, Zeytinburnu, Turkey (Türkiye)

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Central Contacts

ESRA PEHLİVAN

Role: CONTACT

fztesrakambur@yahoo.com

09050585279

Facility Contacts

Esra Pehlivan

Role: primary

fztesrakambur@yahoo.com

+902124090200

Other Identifiers

COPD_Chair exercises

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id