Please select the arm or intervention descriptions that belong to the clinical trial below.
Title: Feasibility & Effect of a Tele-rehabilitation Program in Pulmonary Sarcoidosis
Brief Summary: Pulmonary sarcoidosis (PS) is defined as a multisystem granulomatous disorder of unknown cause affecting different vital organs, especially the lungs.

PS manifest in reduction of pulmonary function. Overall symptoms lead to poor physical conditioning contributing to a vicious cycle of more physical inactivity.

Treatment of sarcoidosis is usually limited to patient symptoms. Progressive fibrosis sometimes can lead to respiratory failure and ultimately, pulmonary transplantation.

Physical training shows promising evidence of a positive effect on PF. No defined training program with regard to exercise frequency, duration or intensities exists.

PS is a relatively rare disease and patients are scattered in great geographically areas,.It is difficult to organize targeted group training with supervised physical training, convenient for patients and affordable for the public health sector. Tele-rehabilitation (TR) seems to be a good approach to reach patients in low inhabited areas, going from health care to self-care, empowering patient's awareness of their disease and increasing the flexibility patients need to acquire healthier behaviors.

Preliminary evaluations from TR initiatives in Scotland showed tele-rehabilitation to be more cost effective with patients living in remote areas than with the outreach- or centralized model.

No studies on the feasibility effect of TR in PS exists. The study is a prospective randomized controlled trial investigating the effects of tele-rehabilitation in patients with PS compared to standard practice. 24 patients with PS will be randomized in two groups, trained by tele-rehabilitation for 12 weeks and afterwards followed for 6 months. The control group will follow the usual control program for PS patients that only involves outpatient visits approximately every 3rd month. No specific PS rehabilitation program exists. The intervention group will receive TR in the form of video consultations- and chat sessions with a real physiotherapist and workout sessions with a virtual physiotherapist agent. They will also train with virtual reality glasses or tablets that show the actual exercises in the training program.

Patients will be tested with pulmonary function, physical, anxiety and quality of life parameters, all at baseline, after 12 weeks of intervention, 3 and 6 months after cessation of the program.


Options:
A: Arm Label: Intervention group "tele-rehabilitation"; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: Virtual Autonomous Physiotherapist Agent (VAPA) | Arm Label: Control; Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Behavioral: Virtual Autonomous Physiotherapist Agent (VAPA) | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Virtual Autonomous Physiotherapist Agent (VAPA); Assigned to Arm(s): Control, Intervention group "tele-rehabilitation"
B: Arm Label: Control; Type: NO_INTERVENTION; Interventions: N/A | Arm Label: Intervention; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: Telerehabilitation | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Telerehabilitation; Assigned to Arm(s): Intervention
C: Arm Label: Telehealth program; Type: OTHER; Interventions: Other: Telehealth program | Arm Label: Usual care; Type: OTHER; Interventions: Other: Usual care | Intervention Type: OTHER; Name: Telehealth program; Assigned to Arm(s): Telehealth program | Intervention Type: OTHER; Name: Usual care; Assigned to Arm(s): Usual care
D: Arm Label: Targeted self-management barrier support; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: Self-management barrier support | Arm Label: Guided COPD education; Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Behavioral: Basic COPD Education | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Self-management barrier support; Assigned to Arm(s): Targeted self-management barrier support | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Basic COPD Education; Assigned to Arm(s): Guided COPD education

Answer: B