ArticleInternational journal of telerehabilitation2014
Are improvements maintained after in-home pulmonary telerehabilitation for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?
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- Functional Status Assessment of Patients With COPD: A Systematic Review of Performance-Based Measures and Patient-Reported Measures.Medicine · 2016Pooled it
- The State of the Art of eHealth Self-Management Interventions for People With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Mobile App for Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases During Home-Based Exercise Care: Usability Study.JMIR human factors · 2024Article
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- Content, Mechanism, and Outcome of Effective Telehealth Solutions for Management of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases: A Narrative Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Will Remotely Based Pulmonary Rehabilitation Water Down Its Effectiveness?Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Developing a Web Platform to Optimize the Self-Management of People Living with a Chronic Respiratory Disease.Physiotherapy Canada. Physiotherapie Canada · 2021Article
- Telerehabilitation for Post-Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients: A Proof-of-Concept Study During a Pandemic.International journal of telerehabilitation · 2021Article
- Telehealth and Home Health Occupational Therapy: Clients' Perceived Satisfaction with and Perception of Occupational Performance.International journal of telerehabilitation · 2020Article
- Are Physical activity and Benefits Maintained After Long-Term Telerehabilitation in COPD?International journal of telerehabilitation · 2016Article
- Telerehabilitation for patients with heart failure.Cardiovascular diagnosis and therapy · 2015Article
- Telerehabilitation for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients: An Underrecognized Management in Tertiary Care.Indian journal of palliative careArticle
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Abstract
This study investigated if improvements can be maintained over 24 weeks when in-home pulmonary telerehabilitation is combined with asynchronous self-management education for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Twenty-three community-living elders with moderate to very severe COPD participated in a pre/post-intervention study. Over 8 weeks, they had access to self-learning capsules on self-management, received 15 in-home teletreatment sessions and were encouraged to gradually engage in unsupervised sessions. Participants were assessed before the intervention (T1), immediately after the intervention (T2), and 6 months later (T3). Outcome measures were (1) exercise tolerance (6-minute walk test [6MWT]), Cycle Endurance Test [CET]), and (2) quality of life (Chronic Respiratory Questionnaire [CRQ]). Although there were significant improvements after 8 weeks of pulmonary telerehabilitation on the 6MWT, CET and three of four CRQ domains, none of these improvements were maintained after 6 months and scores returned to their baseline values (all p values > 0.05 when comparing T3 with T1). While pulmonary telerehabilitation is possible and has a positive impact on patients with moderate to very severe COPD, improvements were not maintained in the long-term even when physical therapy was accompanied by self-management education.
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