Online coaching to help people with COPD move more during lung rehabilitation
Tests an eHealth activity coaching program for adults with COPD during and after rehabilitation.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Instituto Politécnico de Leiria
- Where
- Leiria, PortugalSee the site
- Trial code
- Registry title
- Effectiveness of a Physical ACtivity Coaching Intervention Using E-Health for COPD Patients in Pulmonary Rehabilitation
- Status
- Recruiting
- People taking part
- 57 people, planned
- Started
- 2 Dec 2024
- Planned end
- Jun 2025
- Type of study
- Interventional, 2 groups
- Treatments tested
- eHealth physical activity coaching intervention
- pulmonary rehabilitation
- Record updated
- 13 December 2024
Who can take part
AI summary
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.
The trial is looking for adults over 40 with stable COPD who are enrolled in a pulmonary rehabilitation program and have a smartphone with internet.
- Age
- Over 40 years old
- Sex
- Men and women can join.
- Disease stage
- COPD diagnosed by GOLD criteria, clinically stable, with no flare-ups (exacerbations) in the previous month.
- Earlier treatment
- Must be enrolled in a pulmonary rehabilitation program. Cannot be in another behaviour-change program at the same time.
Main reasons for not taking part
- Taking part in another behaviour-change program at the same time
- A health condition that prevents a physical activity program (for example severe muscle, bone or nerve disorders, or unstable heart disease)
- Another main lung disease
- Cancer in the previous year, including its last treatment
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- age > 40 years old
- diagnosis of COPD according to GOLD criteria, clinically stable (i.e., with no exacerbations in the previous month)
- being enrolled in a pulmonary rehabilitation program
- having a smartphone with access to the internet
- being able to understand and provide informed consent
Who cannot take part
- history of recent neoplasia (including last treatment) in the previous year
- having any clinical condition that precludes participation in a PA intervention (e.g., severe musculoskeletal or neurological disorders and unstable cardiovascular disease)
- another primary respiratory disease
- simultaneous participation in another behavioural modification program
Where in Portugal
- Center for Innovative Care and Health Technology (ciTechCare), Polytechnic of LeiriaLeiria, PortugalContact: Maria GuarinoTaking people
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
The goal of this randomized controlled trial is to evaluate the efficacy of a physical activity coaching intervention - delivered through an eHealth platform both during and after pulmonary rehabilitation - to enhance physical activity levels and health-related outcomes in patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). All participants will attend the pulmonary rehabilitation program for 2 months; the experimental group will receive a physical activity coaching intervention at the end of the 1st month of the rehabilitation program, which will continue for 6 months following the completion of the program. Assessments will be conducted at the beginning, midway, and at the end of the coaching program, as well as 3 months and 6 months after its conclusion.
The 2 groups in the trial
- Experimental Group - Pulmonary rehabilitation + eHealth physical activity coaching interventionTreatment being tested
Patients will attend a PR program for 10 weeks and receive an eHealth PA coaching intervention (smartband connected to a mobile application) in the week 5 of PR until months after end of PR.
Treatment: eHealth physical activity coaching intervention and pulmonary rehabilitation
- Control group - pulmonary rehabilitationOther group
Patients will attend pulmonary rehabilitation program for 10 weeks.
Treatment: pulmonary rehabilitation
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- PACE - Physical Activity in COPD Using E-Health: Effectiveness of a Personalised eHealth Platform Integrated Into Pulmonary Rehabilitation to Increase Physical Activity in Patients With COPD - a Randomized Controlled Trial
- Plain-language title
- Online coaching to help people with COPD move more during lung rehabilitationGenerated from the registry record. The registry title is the official one.
- AI summary
- From the trial's eligibility criteria. Read by machine on 12 November 2026.
- Record updated
- 13 December 2024