Please select the arm or intervention descriptions that belong to the clinical trial below.
Title: The Effects of Maintenance Schedules Following Pulmonary Rehabilitation in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Brief Summary: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a preventable and treatable condition, is a major healthcare problem with huge human and economic costs. It affects 3 million people, results in 1.4 million consultations, causes 30,000 deaths, and costs £800M per year in the UK. Considerable research expenditure is devoted to finding new and expensive interventions. However pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is an available therapeutic option with good evidence of benefit for patients in terms of quality of life and daily functioning.

The primary objective of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of the addition of a maintenance programme following pulmonary rehabilitation in patients with COPD when compared to standard care.

The secondary objective is to identify baseline characteristics that will predict improvement in pulmonary rehabilitation programmes and adherence to maintenance strategies. By measuring a series of demographic, clinical, physiological, psychological and biochemical parameters the researchers hope to be able to predict those patients who are likely to receive the greatest benefit from pulmonary rehabilitation.

An additional objective will be to prepare a detailed maintenance programme manual. This will be available to other centres providing pulmonary rehabilitation at the conclusion of the study


Options:
A: Arm Label: with mobile phone assistance; Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Behavioral: Mobile-phone-based Home Exercise Training Program, Behavioral: Home Exercise Training Program | Arm Label: with free walk; Type: PLACEBO_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Behavioral: Home Exercise Training Program | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Mobile-phone-based Home Exercise Training Program; Assigned to Arm(s): with mobile phone assistance | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Home Exercise Training Program; Assigned to Arm(s): with free walk, with mobile phone assistance
B: Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Internet-based Dyspnea Self-Management Program; Assigned to Arm(s): N/A | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Face-to-face Dyspnea Self-Management Program; Assigned to Arm(s): N/A
C: Arm Label: Pulmonary Rehabilitation Group; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: Pulmonary Intervention | Arm Label: Control Group; Type: NO_INTERVENTION; Interventions: N/A | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Pulmonary Intervention; Assigned to Arm(s): Pulmonary Rehabilitation Group
D: Arm Label: 1: i-DSMP; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: Internet DSMP | Arm Label: 2: f-DSMP; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: Face-to-Face Dyspnea Self-management | Arm Label: 3: AC; Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Behavioral: Attention Control | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Internet DSMP; Assigned to Arm(s): 1: i-DSMP | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Face-to-Face Dyspnea Self-management; Assigned to Arm(s): 2: f-DSMP | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Attention Control; Assigned to Arm(s): 3: AC

Answer: C