Physical Activity Following Pulmonary Rehabilitation in COPD

NCT03660644 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 180203
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 74
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The aim of this feasibility study is to identify the acceptability of an intervention designed to promote physical activity following pulmonary rehabilitation for individuals with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Participants in the intervention group will be provided with pedometers and step diaries and added to a WhatsApp group with other graduates of pulmonary rehabilitation for 52 weeks.

Conditions

COPD; Physical Activity

Keywords

COPD; Physical Activity; Pulmonary rehabilitation

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Acceptability of the intervention

  The number of patients who comply with the intervention will be measured

  55 weeks

Secondary Outcomes (15)

• Recruitment rates

  Up to 26 weeks (approximately)

• Consent rates

  Up to 26 weeks (approximately)

• Attrition rates

  Up to 55 weeks (study completion)

• Semi-structured telephone interviews with subsets of patients

  At relevant intervals up to 55 weeks (study completion)

• Focus groups with health care professionals

  At relevant intervals up to 55 weeks (study completion)

Study Arms (2)

WhatsApp, Pedometer and Step Diary

EXPERIMENTAL

Pedometer, step diary and WhatsApp following pulmonary rehabilitation

Behavioral: WhatsApp, Pedometer and Step Diary

Control

NO INTERVENTION

Usual care following pulmonary rehabilitation.

Interventions

WhatsApp, Pedometer and Step Diary BEHAVIORAL

Participants will be provided with a daily step diary and added to a group chat on WhatsApp. The group chat will be populated by other members of pulmonary rehabilitation programme (cluster) and the WhatsApp group leader will encourage participants to keep active. Participants will be encouraged to record the number of steps walked in a paper diary at the end of each day (i.e. prior to bedtime). This diary will simply have three columns: day of the week; number of steps; comments (optional). The intervention will last 52 weeks.

WhatsApp, Pedometer and Step Diary

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 30 Years - 100 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Cluster level
• Pulmonary rehabilitation programmes within Lincolnshire Community Health Services (NHS trust).
• Permission from the lead healthcare professionals of the pulmonary rehabilitation programme for the programme to be involved in the study.
• Patient level
• Adults (age range: 30-100 years) with COPD who are enrolled in pulmonary rehabilitation within Lincolnshire Community Health Services (NHS trust).
• Provide informed consent for their outcome data to be collected.
• Patients (for telephone interviews)
• Have access to a telephone.
• Adults (age range: 30-100 years) with COPD who are enrolled in pulmonary rehabilitation within Lincolnshire community health services (NHS trust).
• Provide informed consent to participate in a telephone interview (including patients who do/do not consent for their outcome data to be collected).
• Health care professionals
• Involved in delivering the pulmonary rehabilitation programmes allocated to the Intervention Group within Lincolnshire Community Health Services (NHS trust).
• Provide informed consent to participate in a focus group.
• WhatsApp group leaders
• Volunteers (who were members of local COPD support groups, whom held the position of Chair, Treasurer or Secretary, or were ordinary members, and in general, sufficiently stable to be a proactive and regular member of the group)

You may not qualify if:

• Cluster level
• Pulmonary rehabilitation programmes which are not within Lincolnshire Community Health Services (NHS trust).
• The lead health care professionals of the pulmonary rehabilitation programmes are unwilling for the programme to be involved in the study.
• Patient level
• Not enrolled on a pulmonary rehabilitation programme within Lincolnshire Community Health Services (NHS trust) or those who drop out of pulmonary rehabilitation following enrolment.
• Unable/unwilling to provide informed consent for their outcome data to be collected.
• Involved in another research study including the use of an intervention to promote physical activity.
• Patients (telephone interviews)
• Do not have access to a telephone.
• Not enrolled on a pulmonary rehabilitation programme within Lincolnshire Community Health Services (NHS trust) or those who drop out of pulmonary rehabilitation following enrolment.
• Unable/unwilling to provide informed consent to participate in a telephone interview.
• Health care professionals
• Not involved in delivering the pulmonary rehabilitation programmes allocated to the Intervention Group.
• Unable/unwilling to provide informed consent to participate in a focus group.
• WhatsApp group leaders

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Lincoln: lead
• National Health Service, United Kingdom: collaborator
• British Lung Foundation: collaborator
• University College, London: collaborator
• University of Oxford: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

NHS pulmonary rehabilitation clinics across Lincolnshire

Lincoln, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive; Motor Activity

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Lung Diseases, Obstructive; Lung Diseases; Respiratory Tract Diseases; Chronic Disease; Disease Attributes; Pathologic Processes; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms; Behavior

Study Officials

• Hayley Robinson, MSc

  University of Lincoln

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Masking Details: Physiotherapists will be aware of the allocation of the programmes (not possible to blind) as they will be involved with delivering information/training of the intervention components. However, a researcher blinded to group allocation will perform the quantitative analysis.
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: May 17, 2018
• First Posted: September 6, 2018
• Study Start: June 13, 2018
• Primary Completion: December 31, 2019
• Study Completion: December 31, 2019
• Last Updated: February 20, 2020

Record last verified: 2019-09

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

GB (1)