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Journal Article
A telerehabilitation intervention for patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: a randomized controlled pilot trial
2014
Overview
Objective:
First, to investigate the effects of a telerehabilitation intervention on health status and activity level of patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), compared to usual care. Second, to investigate how patients comply with the intervention and whether compliance is related to treatment outcomes.
Design:
a randomized controlled pilot trial
Subjects:
Thirty-four patients diagnosed with COPD.
Intervention:
The telerehabilitation application consists of an activity coach (3D-accelerometer with smartphone) for ambulant activity registration and real-time feedback, complemented by a web portal with a symptom diary for self-treatment of exacerbations. The intervention group used the application for 4 weeks. The control group received usual care.
Main measures:
Activity level measured by a pedometer (in steps/day), health status by the Clinical COPD Questionnaire at baseline and after intervention. Compliance was expressed as the time the activity coach was worn.
Results:
Fourteen intervention and 16 control patients completed the study. Activity level (steps/day) was not significantly affected by the intervention over time. There was a non-significant difference in improvement in health status between the intervention (−0.34±0.55) and control group (0.02±0.57, p=0.10). Health status significantly improved within the intervention group (p=0.05). The activity coach was used more than prescribed (108%) and compliance was related to the increase in activity level for the first two feedback weeks (r=0.62, p=0.03).
Conclusions:
This pilot study shows the potential of the telerehabilitation intervention: compliance with the activity coach was high, which directly related to an improvement in activity levels.
Publisher
SAGE Publications,Sage Publications Ltd
Subject
Accelerometry - instrumentation
/ Aged
/ Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
/ Exercise
/ Feedback
/ Female
/ Humans
/ Male
/ Monitoring, Physiologic - instrumentation
/ Monitoring, Physiologic - methods
/ Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care)
/ Patients
/ Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - rehabilitation
/ R&D
/ Telerehabilitation - instrumentation
