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Pulmonary Disease, Chronic ObstructiveNCT03735615

Sprint Interval Training in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease

A study testing sprint interval training in people with Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive, run by Norwegian University of Science and Technology at 1 site in Norway.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

Official record
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Trial summary

Exercise therapy is a cornerstone in the management of patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary disease (COPD), and supervised walking exercise three times a week over 12 weeks improves walking ability and quality of life. Despite this, very few patients exercise on a regular basis. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 50 years and older
Conditions the study is for
Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
What is being tested?
sprint interval training
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
20 participants
Where
1 siteNorway
Study dates
15 Nov 2018to 10 Mar 2019
Phase
Interventional
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 50 years and older
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • stable CPOD stage 3 and 4 according to GOLD guidelines (www.goldcopd.org)
  • post bronchodilator FEV < 50%

Who cannot join

  • having participated in a pulmonary rehabilitation program during the last 3 months.

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

Norway1 site
  • St Olavs University Hospital

    Trondheim

Other trials in Norway

About this study

Exercise therapy is a cornerstone in the management of patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary disease (COPD), and supervised walking exercise three times a week over 12 weeks improves walking ability and quality of life. Despite this, very few patients exercise on a regular basis. The underuse of exercise in COPD patients can partly be explained by discomfort during exercise because it evokes dyspnea, and thereby explain lack of participation in exercise. If the goal is to offer the best medical therapy to these patients, new and effective exercise training methods must be explored and defined since exercise training is an important part of pulmonary rehabilitation.

Intention is to study a new training method called sprint interval training (SIT), which consists of high intensity bouts with very short duration. The idea behind SIT is to avoid the dyspnea associated with traditional endurance training, thus maximizing exercise power without excessive discomfort. The investigators will study training adaptations in patients with COPD and compare the results with age-matched controls.

It is expected that both COPD-patients and healthy elderly will improve exercise cycle time until exhaustion after SIT training, and also that the improvement will be larger in the healthy group due to higher absolute training intensity.

Being tested
sprint interval training
Keywords
Exercise therapy, High-Intensity Interval Training
Medical subject headings
Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • sprint interval trainingBehavioural

    Each training session will be performed 3 times per week for 3 weeks. Each session consists of 3-5x20 sec all-out cycling efforts against a load corresponding to 0.05-0.07 kg/kg body mass, separated by 3-5 min of low intensity cycling (20-50 W), on a lode bicycle ergometer (Excalibur Sport V2.0, Groningen, the Netherlands). All training sessions includes a 5 min warm-up and 3 min cool-down.

Study groups in NCT03735615
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
chronic obstructive lung diseaseExperimentalNot described
Receives: Behavioral: sprint interval training
healthy controlExperimentalNot described
Receives: Behavioral: sprint interval training

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. exercise cycle time to exhaustion

    Measured: 3 weeks

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted8 Nov 2018
  2. Study start15 Nov 2018
  3. Primary completion10 Mar 2019
  4. Study completion10 Mar 2019

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase N/A
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Non-randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Model description
10 patients with stable chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD) stage 3 and 4 according to GOLD guidelines (www.goldcopd.org), recruited from outpatient ward of the Lung Department at St Olav University Hospital. Control group of 10 age-matched but otherwise healthy subjects
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
20 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT03735615
Sponsor's protocol ID
2018/723
Status last verified
Jan 2020
First submitted
7 Nov 2018
Last updated
13 Jan 2020
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
No

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing sprint interval training in people with Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive, run by Norwegian University of Science and Technology at 1 site in Norway.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 2 inclusion and 1 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 13 Jan 2020. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in Norway. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

exercise cycle time to exhaustion (time frame: 3 weeks). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 13 Jan 2020.

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