ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2019
Pulmonary Rehabilitation Reduces Subjective Fatigue in COPD: A Responder Analysis.
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- Barriers and enablers to centre-based pulmonary rehabilitation for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review.Journal of global health · 2025Pooled it
- Pulmonary Rehabilitation for Adults with Chronic Respiratory Disease: An Official American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2023Guideline
- Effect of a digital intervention on mental health symptoms in adults with chronic conditions: A three-arm randomized controlled trial.PLoS medicine · 2026Trial
- The impact of bronchoscopic lung volume reduction with endobronchial valves with or without pulmonary rehabilitation on symptoms of fatigue, anxiety and depression: a multicentre randomised controlled trial.ERJ open research · 2025Article
- Therapeutic Management in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Who Are Overweight or Obese: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Clinical importance of patient-reported outcome measures in severe asthma: results from U-BIOPRED.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2024Article
- A home-based exercise programme attenuates fatigue in primary biliary cholangitis: Results from the EXCITED clinical trial.JHEP reports : innovation in hepatology · 2024Article
- Safety and Efficacy of Pulmonary Rehabilitation for Long COVID Patients Experiencing Long-Lasting Symptoms.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Balancing the value and risk of exercise-based therapy post-COVID-19: a narrative review.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2023Review
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- Establishing the Validity of Using the COPD Assessment Test to Screen for Fatigue in People With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Referred to Pulmonary Rehabilitation.Physical therapy · 2023Article
- Caring for patients with advanced COPD: beyond the inhalers….Breathe (Sheffield, England) · 2023Review
- Functional Status Following Pulmonary Rehabilitation: Responders and Non-Responders.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- What Motivates Patients with COPD to Be Physically Active? A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Severe Fatigue in Long COVID: Web-Based Quantitative Follow-up Study in Members of Online Long COVID Support Groups.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021Article
- Severe Fatigue is Highly Prevalent in Patients with IPF or Sarcoidosis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Article
- Is it possible to reverse frailty in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2020Review
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15 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
To date, it remains unknown which patients report a clinically-relevant improvement in fatigue following pulmonary rehabilitation (PR). The purpose of this study was to identify and characterize these responders. Demographics, lung function, anxiety (anxiety subscale of the 90-item symptom checklist (SCL-90-A)), depression (Beck depression inventory for primary care (BDI-PC)), exercise tolerance (six-minute walking distance test (6MWD)), and health status (Nijmegen clinical screening instrument (NCSI)) were assessed before and after a 12-week PR programme. Fatigue was assessed using the checklist individual strength (CIS)-Fatigue. Patients with a decline ≥ 10 points (minimally clinically important difference, MCID) on the CIS-Fatigue were defined as responders. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients (
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