Conditions: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Depression
Keywords: COPD Depression Nursing Home
Allocation: NA | Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Enrollment: 30
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The purpose of this study is to assess the effect of treatment with Advair Diskus on depression using the Cornell depression scale in COPD patients in the nursing home.

Detailed description:
We are studying 35 residents in the ECF with a diagnosis of COPD. We are evaluating them for depressive symptoms using the Cornell Depression Scale and the MDS 3.0 section D. We are selecting patients who are not currently on treatment with Advair and starting them on Advair Diskus50/250 1 inhalation bid for a period of 16 weeks and reassessing the Cornell Depression SCale and MDS3.0 section D looking for any changes. We are also going to measure FEV1 and FVC using spirometry before treatment and at the end of 16 weeks. This is a pilot study. The numbers are not necessarily adequate to achieve statistical difference-we are looking for trends.

Arms:
arm 1: open label treatment with Advair diskus in COPD patients

Interventions: intervention 1: Advair diskus
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Advair diskus 50/250 1 inhalation bid for 16 weeks

Protocol document: