Observational studyInternational journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Digitalizing multidisciplinary pulmonary rehabilitation in COPD with a smartphone application: an international observational pilot study.
Observational study in International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04820790 (Mobile Application for Monitoring Patients With Home Oxygen. A Protocol of a Randomized and Controlled Clinical Trial.), which is not on this map. Cited by 31 papers.
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Mobile Application for Monitoring Patients With Home Oxygen. A Protocol of a Randomized and Controlled Clinical Trial.
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 71 citations in OpenAlex.
- A Smartphone App Self-Management Program for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Randomized Controlled Trial of Clinical Outcomes.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2025Trial
- Experiences of Home-Based Pulmonary Rehabilitation With mHealth and Centre-Based Pulmonary Rehabilitation in People With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Qualitative Study.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2025Trial
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- 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
- Smartphone applications supporting self-management programme for adults with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Scoping Review.PLOS digital health · 2024Article
- Virtual Reality Applications for the Implementation of Domestic Respiratory Rehabilitation Programs for Patients With Long COVID and Post-COVID Condition: Scoping Review.JMIR serious games · 2024Article
- Feasibility of a home-designed respiratory rehabilitation program for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.Primary health care research & development · 2024Article
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- [Overview on pulmonary rehabilitation].Der Pneumologe · 2022Review
- A home-based pulmonary rehabilitation mHealth system to enhance the exercise capacity of patients with COPD: development and evaluation.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2021Article
- Will Remotely Based Pulmonary Rehabilitation Water Down Its Effectiveness?Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Mobile application for monitoring patients under home oxygen therapy: a protocol for a randomized controlled trial.BMC family practice · 2021Article
- Telemedicine platform COVIDREHAB for remote rehabilitation of patients after COVID-19.European journal of translational myology · 2021Article
- Usage Evaluation of a Mobile App to Help Understand the Rehabilitation Process of Shoulder Surgery.Revista brasileira de ortopedia · 2021Article
- Conceptual validation of an innovative remote pulmonary rehabilitation solution for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.Canadian journal of respiratory therapy : CJRT = Revue canadienne de la therapie respiratoire : RCTR · 2021Article
- Effect of internet-based self-management on pulmonary function rehabilitation and living quality in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.American journal of translational research · 2021Article
- Scalable modEls of Community rehAbilitation for Individuals Recovering From COVID:19 reLated illnEss: A Longitudinal Service Evaluation Protocol-"SeaCole Cohort Evaluation".Frontiers in public health · 2021Article
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundConcerning COPD, pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) has a positive effect on disease progression and mortality, is cost-effective, and is a part of recommendations of international guidelines. Only a minority of patients profit from conventional PR due to a lack of resources, physicians' guideline adherence, or patients' motivation. Novel digital therapies like Kaia COPD, a smartphone application that digitizes PR in COPD, are promising solutions to fill this void.
methodsKaia COPD provides a digital version of PR and is certified as a class-I medical device in the European Union. We investigated anonymized data from users of the Kaia COPD app on in-app retention and the change in health-related quality of life (COPD assessment test and Chronic Respiratory Disease Questionnaire [CRQ]) during a period of 20 exercise days with the app.
resultsOf 349 app downloads, 56 users fulfilled inclusion criteria and 34 (61%) had finished day 20 at the time of analysis and were included. Users took 33±11 days to complete the 20-day core program. Users finishing the program reduced their COPD assessment test scores (mean 2.5 units from 21.6±7.7 to 19.1±8.4 units,
conclusionDigitalizing PR with a smartphone app is feasible and accepted by selected patients. The app leads to short-term improvement of health-related quality of life in patients completing a 20-day core program. Due to its observational character, this study has several methodological limitations and was intended to show the feasibility and to extrapolate effect sizes for planned prospective randomized-controlled trials to confirm these findings.
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