Balance Training Following Pulmonary Rehabilitation on Balance in People With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

ConditionsCOPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease)COPD Balance Exercise Falls, Intervention Balance Training Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Trial statusRecruiting

Trial phaseNot applicable

Trial typeInterventional

Biological sexAll

AgeNot listed

SponsorSamantha Harrison

About this trial

This study aims to see if a co-designed balance training programme called Sport4Steadiness (S4S), is acceptable to people with COPD and if the study procedures, including recruitment and the collection of outcomes, is feasible.

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Adults with spirometry confirmed diagnosis of COPD as per GOLD guidelines (FEV1/FVC ratio below 0.7) or physician confirmed COPD diagnosis

Answers yes to one or more of the Three Key Questions* or Timed up and Go Test result > 11 seconds

An ability and capacity to provide consent to the trial

Q1. Have you fallen in the past year? Q2. Do you feel unsteady when standing or walking? Q3. Do you have worries about falling?

Disqualifiers

Any neurological, musculoskeletal, chronic pain or other diagnoses that, in the opinion of the investigator, would interfere with the ability of the participant to safely complete PR and balance training

Unable to comprehend instruction given verbally in English language

Where there is concern that the primary cause of balance issues could be due to problems with visual function, vestibular disturbance or peripheral neuropathy

Diagnosis of, or patient-reported symptoms of, vasovagal syncope

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

Sport4Steadiness
Other intervention
Sport4Steadiness (S4S), is a group, exercise based, balance training programme. It was designed by researchers interested in balance in people with COPD and patients and members of the public who have, or care for someone with, COPD or other lung conditions. It adapts parts of different sports, games and activities to train balance and have fun. S4S sessions take place twice a week for 6 weeks, 12 sessions in total. Each session lasts for 2 hours with 1 hour of activity and 1 hour of socialisation

Treatment groups

77 Participants

are divided into 2 treatment groups

Group A: Usual careNo intervention 0 interventions

Group B: Sport4Steadiness ProgrammeExperimental treatment 1 intervention

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

Feasibility of study procedures and the delivery of S4S.

The primary feasibility outcomes include participant recruitment rates per site, participants' willingness to be randomised, participant attrition rates, and participant adherence rates.

Time frame

Outcomes are assessed at the end of recruitment, post-randomisation, and approximately 12 weeks after baseline assessment

Sponsors and contacts

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Samantha Harrison

Lead sponsor

Teesside University

Sponsor institution

North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust

Collaborator

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Collaborator

Source ClinicalTrials.gov

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