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Investigating Health Related Quality of Life in Patients With Chronic Respiratory Failure

ConditionsChronic Obstructive Pulmonary DiseaseRespiratory FailureNeuromuscular DiseasesVentilatory Failure
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot listed
Trial typeObservational
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorGuy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

About this trial

To determine the quality of life of patients living with chronic respiratory failure and the impact interventions have on it.

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Non-invasive ventilation

Prolonged mechanical ventilation

Mechanical insufflation-exsufflation therapy

Disqualifiers

Aged <18

Significant physical or psychiatric co-morbidity that would prevent compliance with trial protocol

Trial population

Patients with chronic respiratory failure being treated with a form of ventilation of mechanical insufflation-exsufflation therapy.

Trial design

Design model

Cohort

Time perspective

Cross-sectional

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Questionnaire

    Other intervention

    HRQoL questionnaires

Treatment groups

200 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups
Group A: Non-invasive ventilation1 intervention
Group B: Long term tracheostomy ventilation0 interventions

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

HRQoL score

Outcome of various HRQoL assessment tools.

Time frame
Day 0: At the first outpatient clinical consultation with the clinical team

Secondary outcomes

1

Change in HRQoL score

Change in HRQoL assessment tool score at next clinical follow-up.

Time frame
6 months following first assessment for Outcome 1

Other outcomes

Sponsors and contacts

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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Lead sponsor

Source ClinicalTrials.gov
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