The Efficiency of Breathing Exercises

NCT05572827 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: Atatürk U
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 60
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of teaching breathing exercises to COVID-19 patients after intensive care.The research is a randomized controlled and pretest-posttest applied design. The population of the research will consist of patients who have been previously admitted to the intensive care unit of the hospital where the research will be conducted and who meet the research criteria.The data of the study are "Patient Information Form" and "Data Registration Form", "Care dependency scale", "Health Screening short form-36", "Saint George Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ), "Respiratory Function Test", "Respiratory Exercises Information Booklet" and "Breathing Exercises Information Booklet".

Conditions

Breathing Exercises

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (7)

• Data Registration Form.

  It is the form in which the systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, pulse, respiration, body temperature, oxygen saturation values taken twice a day, before and after exercise, are recorded.

  3 months

• Patient Identification Form.

  Patients have name-surname, age, gender, height, weight, educational status, occupation, marital status, clinical data (history, family history, medications used, use of assistive devices, smoking history, respiratory system evaluation) and exercise habits.

  3 months

• Baseline dyspnea scale

  Mahler et al. It was developed by 1984. The validity and reliability of the Basal Dyspnea Scale in our country have been made by different researchers, and the scale evaluates dyspnea due to activity; It measures in three different areas: functional status (level of performing activities of daily living), effort capacity (difficult efforts to perform activities) and work capacity.

  3 months

• Health Screening short form-36 Short Form-36

  (Short Form-36 Health Survey - SF-36) will be used to assess overall health-related quality of life. SF-36 is a self-rating scale. Subscales evaluate health on a scale of 0-100, with 0 indicating poor health and 100 indicating good health.

  3 months

• Saint George Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ)

  The Saint George Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ) will be used to assess the disease-specific quality of life. The SGRQ is a questionnaire in which patients self-answer questions. The questionnaire, which consists of three categories, questions the effects of symptoms, activity and illness on daily life. It is considered to be more standardized than other health-related quality of life questionnaires. It is mostly used in COPD, asthma and bronchiectasis. It has an evaluation scale between 0-100 points in the questionnaire consisting of a total of 76 questions. Zero indicates best health and 100 indicates worst health.

  3 months

• Pulmonary Function Test

  Pulmonary function tests are an objective method used in the diagnosis and follow-up of the disease. In pulmonary function tests, the percentages of forced expiratory volume in the first second (FEV1), forced vital capacity (FVC), the ratio of forced expiratory volume in the first second to forced vital capacity (FEV1/FVC), peak flow rate (PEF), values to the expected value will be recorded.

  3 months

• Care dependency scale.

  In the study, this scale was used to determine the care dependency of the patients. The lowest score obtained from the scale is 17 and the highest score is 85. A high scale score indicates that the individual is independent in meeting their care needs, while a low scale score indicates that the individual is dependent on meeting their care needs.

  3 months

Study Arms (2)

Experimental

EXPERIMENTAL

Breathing exercises will be taught to COVID-19 patients after intensive care.

Behavioral: Breathing exercises

Control

NO INTERVENTION

Breathing exercises will not be taught to COVID-19 patients after intensive care.

Interventions

Breathing exercises BEHAVIORAL

Breathing exercises for COVID-19 patients after intensive care increase their quality of life.

Experimental

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 80 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Being a patient who was treated in the intensive care unit and referred to the clinic due to Covid-19 PCR positivity
• Ability to do exercises appropriately
• Absence of any communication or medically defined mental problems
• Being able to understand and speak Turkish
• Not having any disease that may be risky for the study (uncontrolled diabetes, malignant hypertension, thyrotoxicosis, orthopedic defect, muscle and joint disease)
• Volunteering to participate in the study

You may not qualify if:

• Not being treated in the intensive care unit due to Covid-19 PCR positivity
• Having any communication or medically defined mental problems
• Inability to properly perform exercises prepared for study
• Those with an uncontrollable additional disease (diabetes, thyrotoxicosis, malignant hypertension)
• Those who cannot understand and speak Turkish
• Refusal to participate in the study

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Ataturk University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Atatürk University Faculty of Nursing

Erzurum, 25000, Turkey (Türkiye)

Location

MeSH Terms

Interventions

Breathing Exercises

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Mind-Body Therapies; Complementary Therapies; Therapeutics; Exercise Movement Techniques; Physical Therapy Modalities

Study Officials

• Bahar Çiftçi

  Ataturk University

  STUDY DIRECTOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: INVESTIGATOR
• Purpose: SUPPORTIVE CARE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Principal Investigator

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: September 15, 2022
• First Posted: October 10, 2022
• Study Start: August 1, 2022
• Primary Completion: October 1, 2022
• Study Completion: December 1, 2022
• Last Updated: January 9, 2023

Record last verified: 2023-01

Locations

TU (1)