Feasibility of a Health Coaching and Home-Based Rehabilitation Intervention With Remote Monitoring for COPD.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pulmonary rehabilitation is an effective treatment for patients with COPD, but patient uptake and adherence to the current offering of center-based pulmonary rehabilitation is modest due to transportation, access, poverty, and frailty, and even more so in the context of the COVID pandemic. Home-based options have been proposed and were found noninferior to center-based rehabilitation; however, there is a lack of home-based programs, and more understanding is needed. We aimed to test the feasibility, uptake, and adherence to a home-based program for COPD rehabilitation with health coaching.

Methods

We conducted a randomized trial with a wait-list controlled design to evaluate the effects of a home-based program with health coaching on breathlessness in subjects wit

SUBMITTER: Benzo RP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10027177 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature