Impact of pulmonary rehabilitation programme for COPD patients

• Register: PACTR
• Last refreshed on: 29 May 2023
• Main ID: PACTR201711002731292
• Date of registration: 30/10/2017
• Prospective Registration: No
• Primary sponsor: mekki marwa
• Public title: Impact of pulmonary rehabilitation programme for COPD patients
• Scientific title: Effect of Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation Training added to Pulmonary Rehabilitation on psychosocial outcomes
• Date of first enrolment: 05/06/2017
• Target sample size: 50
• Recruitment status: Pending
• URL: https://pactr.samrc.ac.za/TrialDisplay.aspx?TrialID=2731
• 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 who is situated off site
• Phase: Not Applicable

Countries of recruitment

Tunisia

Contacts

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

• Name: Marwa Mekki
• 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 (asthma, bronchiectasis...) and (3) lack of musculoskeletal or neurologic conditions that might affect their exercise performance, symptomatic cardiac disease, or previous lung surgery
Exclusion criteria: Individuals who smoke and those who run significant response to bronchodilators, defined as an increase in forced expiratory volume in 1 second over 12% from predicted values were excluded from our study.

Age minimum: 65 Year(s)
Age maximum: 76 Year(s)
Gender: Male

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Respiratory
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Respiratory

chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Intervention(s)

neuromuscular electro stimulation added to pulmoanary rehabilitation

PR group

Primary Outcome(s)

6-Minutes Walking Test (6MWT) and psychosocial tests

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. Yassine trabelsi

Ethics review

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

the Research Ethics Committee of Farhat Hached Hospital (Sousse)