NCT06283004Recruiting
Investigation of Walking Training With Different Slope Types in COPD Patients
The Effect of Aerobic Exercise Training in Different Slope Types on Exercise Capacity, Respiratory Functions, Muscle Strength, and Functional Status in COPD Patients
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 13 Jun 2025 · Not updated for over 12 months - ask the site whether it is still open
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a disease that continues to generate a great deal of research and this research must continue, both because it is not completely curable and because of the large patient population. The importance and benefits of exercise training in COPD patients are clear. One of the most preferred types of exercise training is the so-called aerobic exercise training, which typically takes the form of walking. A typical walking training does not use a slope or may include an uphill slope. However, recently there have been publications about downhill walking and its benefits in COPD. Walking on a level, uphill, and downhill slope may have the potential to result in different gains by using different muscle groups more. Therefore, this study aimed to compare the effects of walking training on exercise capacity, respiratory functions, muscle strength, and functional status in COPD patients with three different slope types: level, uphill, and downhill.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 51 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 12 Feb 2024
- Start date
- 9 Apr 2025
- Primary completion date
- 1 Jun 2026
- Lead sponsor
- Acibadem University
- Diseases
- COPD
- NCT number
- NCT06283004
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 51
- From 9 Apr 2025 to the primary completion date, 1 Jun 2026
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Having had pulmonary surgery
Other illness
- Being diagnosed with additional respiratory disease (asthma, bronchiectasis, etc.)
- Having an orthopedic, neurological or cardiac disease that affects exercise
- Having uncontrolled hypertension or diabetes
- Presence of malignancy
Other
- Being in GOLD 4 stage in spirometric evaluation
- Presence of hypoxemia
- Participation in another pulmonary rehabilitation program within the last 6 months
- Having an exacerbation in the last 1 month
Who the study is looking for
- Being diagnosed with COPD (A, B, E groups according to GOLD assessment)
- Ambulate on your own
- Not having any contraindications for exercise
- To be mentally appropriate (score 24 points and above in the mini mental test)
Age in the registry: 40 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bezmialem Vakif University, Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Istanbul | Turkey (Türkiye) | Recruiting |
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