NCT06954948Completed
Effect of Home-Based Pulmonary Rehabilitation
Effect of a Home-Based Pulmonary Rehabilitation on Patients' Outcome With COPD In Limited Recourses Country
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 25 Sept 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This clinical trial aims to assess the effectiveness of home-based pulmonary rehabilitation in improving the clinical outcomes of patients with COPD. Research questions : RQ1: Is there a significant difference in the exacerbation rates before and after implementing the program? RQ2: Is there a significant improvement in the quality of life before and after implementing the program? RQ3: Is there a significant improvement in 6MWT before and after implementing the program? RQ4: Is there a significant improvement in COPD patients' modified Medical Research Council dyspnea scale before and after the implementation of the program? Intervention group will receive pulmonary rehabilitation at home or any place they designated over eight consecutive weeks. Two sessions per week and continuous phone calls. Participants will also be given a structured manual to record their activities and follow instructions on days without supervision. While the control group receive routine care at the respiratory unit.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 128 (actual)
- First submitted
- 10 Apr 2025
- Start date
- 1 Sept 2024
- Primary completion date
- 1 Mar 2025
- Lead sponsor
- Hawler Medical University
- Diseases
- COPD
- NCT number
- NCT06954948
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 128
- From 1 Sept 2024 to the primary completion date, 1 Mar 2025
- 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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Other illness
- patients with pulmonary hypertension
- patients with movement disorders and/or a history of falls
- patients with severe sensory or cognitive impairment
- patients with symptomatic ischemic heart disease
- patients with musculoskeletal degenerative disease
Other
- Patients out site of the city or inability to be contacted
Who the study is looking for
- Clinical diagnosis of COPD, confirmed by spirometry and pulmonologist
- Age ≥40 years (to avoid recruiting participants with asthma rather than COPD)
- Current or previous smoker (≥10 packs per year)
- Confidence in using the proposed pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) system
- Kurdish language fluency
- Willingness to participate and sign an informed consent form.
Age in the registry: 40 years to 80 years · Sex: Male · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawler Medical University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Erbil | Iraq | Unknown status |
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