Mobile-phone-based Home Exercise in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Moderate to Severe COPD Receiving Home Exercise Training
About this trial
This is an interventional prevention trial for Moderate to Severe COPD Receiving Home Exercise Training focused on measuring Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Mobile phone, Biomarker
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- patients with moderate to severe COPD
Exclusion Criteria:
- requirement for oxygen therapy;
- presence of symptomatic cardiovascular diseases or severe systemic diseases limiting exercise capacity;
- use of medications affecting exercise responses;
- musculoskeletal conditions with exercise performance limitation; and
- impaired hearing or vision that affects subject's ability to follow the exercise training program.
Sites / Locations
- Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Active Comparator
Placebo Comparator
with mobile phone assistance
with free walk
In the mobile phone group, patients were asked to continue their exercise program at home at a fixed walking speed. During this period of time, the adherence to protocol was reinforced by telephone from health professionals whenever patients missed one day of their walking training detected by the central system. Patients were asked to continue their exercise program at home at a fixed walking speed, and return to the clinic at 1, 2, 3 and 6 months.
Patients in the control group were educated the same exercise protocol, but were only verbally asked to freely take the walking exercise training at home. The adherence to the walking exercise at home was reported by the patients themselves at every return visits. All the patients received ISWT, spirometry and blood sample for inflammatory biomarkers at baseline, 1, 2, 3 and 6 months.