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A new pulmonary rehabilitation maintenance strategy through home-visiting and phone contact in COPD

Author: Li, Y. Country/countries: China Number of patients participating in the study: 151 This study was focused on patients living with COPD
Intervention analysed in the study: Usual Care Intervention components: UC
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Setting of implementation: Outpatient care (hospital) Professionals delivering the intervention: N/A Targeted self-management behaviours: Condition-specific behaviours, Eating behaviours, Medication use and adherence, Smoking cessation or reduction
Intervention analysed in the study: Monitoring and action-based behavioural techniques Intervention components: E+MT+AB
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Setting of implementation: Home-care Professionals delivering the intervention: N/A Targeted self-management behaviours: Condition-specific behaviours, Physical activity /exercise, Self-monitoring

Outcomes measured in the study

Outcome Measure Tool
COPD symptoms (short term) Dyspnea or breathlessness Modified Medical Research Council (MMRC)
Coping with the disease, including depression and anxiety Depression Beck's Depression Inventory (BDI and BDI-II)
Physical activity / Muscle strenght Exercise capacity 6-min walking test (6MWT)
Qualiy of life Quality of life (specific-disease instruments) N/A

Patient characteristics

Age: 65.5 years (+/- a standard deviation of 8.9) Gender: N/A Time since diagnosis of COPD: N/A Severity of the disease: 48.92 (+/- a standard deviation of 11.38) Multi-morbidity: N/A
  • Number of co-morbidities: N/A

Level of health literacy: N/A
  • Tool: N/A

Socio-economic characteristics: N/A

Risk of Bias of this study

Outcome Random sequence generation Allocation concealment Blinding performance Blinding detection objective outcomes assessment Attrition incomplete outcome Incorrect statistical methods Recruitment bias Selective outcome reporting
COPD symptoms (short term) - Dyspnea or breathlessness
Coping with the disease, including depression and anxiety - Depression
Physical activity / Muscle strenght - Exercise capacity
Qualiy of life - Quality of life (specific-disease instruments)