Please select the arm or intervention descriptions that belong to the clinical trial below.
Title: Impact of a Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program on the PROactive Tool
Brief Summary: Pulmonary rehabilitation is an essential non pharmacological treatment option which reduces dyspnea sensations, increase exercise tolerance, improves health related quality of life and reduces the burden on health care resources (1). Pulmonary rehabilitation is likely an ideal intervention to validate the PROactive tool as responses to pulmonary rehabilitation are clinically significant in terms of exercise tolerance and particularly activity related symptoms. Nevertheless, the response to pulmonary rehabilitation is variable and about one out of three patients does not present a clinically important response. Pulmonary rehabilitation may therefore be an intervention that allows studying the conceptual model around the PROactive tools, anchoring the new PROs (Patient Report Outcome) to outcomes that are well known to change with rehabilitation: exercise induced symptoms, functional exercise tolerance and health related quality of life.

Study objectives

Main objectives

A primary aim is to test reliability of the paper-pencil versus the electronic scoring version of the PROactive tool in terms of assessing the effect of pulmonary rehabilitation on the components of the PROactive tool and on the mode of administration.

The secondary aim of the proposed project is to investigate the effects of a multidisciplinary outpatient hospital-based, pulmonary rehabilitation program on: i) daily physical activity (number of daily steps, vector magnitude unit and movement intensity and ii) the components of the Proactive tool.

Additional study objectives

A third aim of this project is to investigate whether the magnitude of change in daily physical activity and the components of the PROactive tool in general is associated with the magnitude of changes in frequently used rehabilitation related end-points including, functional capacity, exercise capacity and health-related quality of life following the completion of a comprehensive pulmonary rehabilitation program.

A forth aim of this project is to investigate whether the magnitude of change in daily physical activity and the components of the PROactive tool in general is associated with the magnitude of changes in physiological indices including cardiovascular and respiratory adaptations following completion of a comprehensive pulmonary rehabilitation program.


Options:
A: Arm Label: Pulmonary Rehabilitation; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: Pulmonary Rehabilitation | Arm Label: Control; Type: NO_INTERVENTION; Interventions: N/A | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Pulmonary Rehabilitation; Assigned to Arm(s): Pulmonary Rehabilitation
B: Arm Label: Group A, Telerehabilitation; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Other: Telerehabilitation | Arm Label: Group B, Hospital based Rehabilitation; Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Other: Hospital based Rehabilitation | Arm Label: Group C, Usual care Group; Type: NO_INTERVENTION; Interventions: N/A | Intervention Type: OTHER; Name: Telerehabilitation; Assigned to Arm(s): Group A, Telerehabilitation | Intervention Type: OTHER; Name: Hospital based Rehabilitation; Assigned to Arm(s): Group B, Hospital based Rehabilitation
C: Arm Label: Telerehabilitation; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: Exercise training at home, Behavioral: Telemonitoring and education/self-management | Arm Label: Unsupervised exercise training at home; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: Exercise training at home | Arm Label: Usual care; Type: NO_INTERVENTION; Interventions: N/A | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Exercise training at home; Assigned to Arm(s): Telerehabilitation, Unsupervised exercise training at home | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Telemonitoring and education/self-management; Assigned to Arm(s): Telerehabilitation
D: Arm Label: Home-based pulmonary rehabilitation; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: Home-based pulmonary rehabilitation | Arm Label: Hospital-based pulmonary rehabilitation; Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Behavioral: Hospital-based pulmonary rehabilitation | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Home-based pulmonary rehabilitation; Assigned to Arm(s): Home-based pulmonary rehabilitation | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Hospital-based pulmonary rehabilitation; Assigned to Arm(s): Hospital-based pulmonary rehabilitation

Answer: A