Impact of pulmonary rehabilitation programme for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients

• Register: PACTR
• Last refreshed on: 29 May 2023
• Main ID: PACTR201711002730365
• Date of registration: 30/10/2017
• Prospective Registration: No
• Primary sponsor: mekki marwa
• Public title: Impact of pulmonary rehabilitation programme for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients
• Scientific title: evaluation of the combined effect of endurance training or strength training on endurance tolerance and muscle strength of the lower limbs.
• Date of first enrolment: 11/09/2017
• Target sample size: 65
• Recruitment status: Recruiting
• URL: https://pactr.samrc.ac.za/TrialDisplay.aspx?TrialID=2730
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: Parallel: different groups receive different interventions at same time during study,Randomised,Simple randomisation using a radomisation table created by a computer software program,Allocation was determined by the holder of the sequence
• Phase: Not Applicable

Countries of recruitment

Tunisia

Contacts

• Name: Marwa Mekki
• Affiliation: Department of Physiology and Lung Function Testing University of Sousse

• Name: Yassine Trabelsi
• Affiliation: Department of Physiology and Lung Function Testing University of Sousse

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: (1) Stable COPD patients, absence of other obstructive disease (eg, asthma, bronchiectasis); (3) lack of recent cardiac or neuromuscular pathologies; and (4) a fall in the last 5 years or a recent near-fall. Individuals who smoked and those who had a significant response to bronchodilators, defined as an increase > 12% in forced expiratory volume in 1 second .
Exclusion criteria: cognitive deficiency, a neurological or locomotive condition that may impair their mobility and balance were excluded from the study

Age minimum: 60 Year(s)
Age maximum: 71 Year(s)
Gender: Male

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Respiratory
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Respiratory

chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Intervention(s)

ET added to neuromuscular electrical stimulation

ET added to voluntary contraction

Primary Outcome(s)

6-Minutes Walking Test (6MWT), maximal voluntary contraction (MVC), electromyography (EMG)

Secondary Outcome(s)

spirometry

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Department of Physiology and Lung Function Testing (UR12 ES06), Faculty of Medicine of Sousse, University of Sousse, Tunisia

Secondary Sponsor(s)

Prof. Zouhair tabka

Ethics review

Status: Approved
Approval date: 03/04/2017
Contact:

the Research Ethics Committee of Farhat Hached Hospital (Sousse)