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Santos EAD, Pinto TF, Xavier RF, Stelmach R, Carvalho-Pinto RM, Carvalho CRFD. Elastic tape reduces dyspnea and improves health status in the short term in nonobese COPD males: A randomized controlled trial. Respir Med 2024; 221:107459. [PMID: 37944827 DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2023.107459] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2023] [Revised: 10/12/2023] [Accepted: 11/03/2023] [Indexed: 11/12/2023]
Abstract
INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES The elastic tape (ET) is a novel intervention that acutely improves exercise capacity in laboratory tests; however, its effect on a patient's daily life remains unknown. This randomized controlled trial evaluated the effects of ET on daily life physical activity (DLPA), dyspnea symptoms, health status, and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in individuals with COPD. METHODS Fifty males with moderate to very severe COPD were randomly assigned to an intervention group (ETG, n = 25), receiving ET on the chest wall and abdomen, or a control group (CG, n = 25). The intervention was for 14 days. DLPA (accelerometry; steps per day, and sedentary time), dyspnea symptoms (transition dyspnea index, TDI; and modified Medical Research Council, mMRC), health status (COPD assessment test, CAT), and health-related quality of life (HRQoL, CRQ) were evaluated at baseline and on Day 21 after the intervention. RESULTS No change in the DLPA was observed in between-group comparison. CG presented a reduction in step counts after 21days (-707,p <0.05) while ETG. maintained (-114,p > 0.94). However, ET reduced dyspnea symptoms in all TDI domains (functional, task, and effort) and on the mMRC scale after 14 days compared with CG (p < 0.01). Also, the ETG improved CAT score compared to the CG, reaching minimal clinical important difference (MCID) (-4.4 score, p <0.01). The ETG also improved in most CRQ domains reaching MCID after 21 days. CONCLUSIONS ET does not modify DLPA but reduces dyspnea and improves health status and HRQoL in nonobese males with moderate to very severe COPD in the short term. This novel and low-cost intervention improves COPD symptoms.
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Affiliation(s)
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- Department of Physical Therapy, School of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Pulmonary Division, Heart Institute (InCor), Clinics Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Pulmonary Division, Heart Institute (InCor), Clinics Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Burtin C, Mohan D, Troosters T, Watz H, Hopkinson NS, Garcia-Aymerich J, Moy ML, Vogiatzis I, Rossiter HB, Singh S, Merrill DD, Hamilton A, Rennard SI, Fageras M, Petruzzelli S, Tal-Singer R, Tomaszewski E, Corriol-Rohou S, Rochester CL, Sciurba FC, Casaburi R, D-C Man W, Van Lummel RC, Cooper CB, Demeyer H, Spruit MA, Vaes A. Objectively measured physical activity as a COPD clinical trial outcome. Chest 2021; 160:2080-2100. [PMID: 34217679 DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2021.06.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2020] [Revised: 05/31/2021] [Accepted: 06/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Reduced physical activity is common in COPD and is associated with poor outcomes. Physical activity is therefore a worthy target for intervention in clinical trials, however, trials evaluating physical activity have used heterogeneous methodologies. RESEARCH QUESTION What is the available evidence on the efficacy and/or effectiveness of various interventions to enhance objectively measured physical activity in patients with COPD, taking into account minimal preferred methodological quality of physical activity assessment? STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS In this narrative review, the COPD Biomarker Qualification Consortium (CBQC) task force searched three scientific databases for articles that reported the effect of an intervention on objectively-measured physical activity in COPD. Based on scientific literature and expert consensus, only studies with ≥7 measurement days and ≥4 valid days of ≥8 hours of monitoring were included in the primary analysis. RESULTS 37 of 110 (34%) identified studies fulfilled the criteria, investigating the efficacy and/or effectiveness of physical activity behavior change programs (n=7), mobile health or eHealth interventions (n=9), rehabilitative exercise (n=9), bronchodilation (n=6), lung volume reduction procedures (n=3) and other interventions (n=3). Results are generally variable, reflecting the large variation in study characteristics and outcomes. Few studies show an increase beyond the proposed minimal important change of 600-1100 daily steps, indicating that enhancing physical activity levels is a challenge. INTERPRETATION Only a third of clinical trials measuring objective physical activity in people with COPD fulfilled the pre-set criteria regarding physical activity assessment. Studies showed variable effects on physical activity even when investigating similar interventions.
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- Chris Burtin
- Reval Rehabilitation Research Center- Biomed Biomedical Research Institute - Hasselt University - Diepenbeek, Belgium.
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- Medical Innovation, Value Evidence and Outcomes, GSK R&D - Collegeville, USA
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- Pulmonary Research institute at LungenClinic Grosshansdorf, Airway Research Center North (ARCN), German Center For Lung Research (DZL), Grosshansdorf, Germany
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- ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain; Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Barcelona, Spain; CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain
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- Pulmonary Section, VA Boston Healthcare System and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation, Northumbria University Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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- The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center - Torrance, USA; The University of Leeds - Leeds, UK
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- Department of Respiratory Science, University of Leicester, UK
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- Boehringer-Ingelheim (Canada) Ltd. - Burlington, Canada
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- Biopharma R&D, AstraZeneca - Cambridge, United Kingdom; University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA
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- Medical Innovation, Value Evidence and Outcomes, GSK R&D - Collegeville, USA; COPD Foundation - Miami, FL, USA
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- Section of Pulmonary, Critical care and Sleep Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA; VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, CT, USA
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- University of Pittsburgh, division of pulmonary allergy and critical care medicine - Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center - Torrance, USA
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, UK; Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, KU Leuven - Leuven, Belgium; Department of Rehabilitation sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Research & Development, CIRO, Horn, the Netherlands; Department of Respiratory Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Centre, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Research & Development, CIRO, Horn, the Netherlands
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