Physical activity coaching in patients with interstitial lung diseases: A randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Physical activity is reduced in patients with interstitial lung disease (ILD) and physical inactivity is related to poor health outcomes. We investigated the effect of a telecoaching intervention to improve physical activity in patients with ILD.

Methods

Eighty patients with ILD were randomized into the intervention or control group. Patients in the intervention group received a 12-week telecoaching program including a step counter, a patient-tailored smartphone application, and coaching calls. Patients in the control group received usual care. Physical activity (primary outcome), physical fitness and quality of life were measured at baseline and 12 weeks later with an accelerometer, 6-min walking test and quadriceps muscle force and the King's Brief Interstitial

SUBMITTER: Breuls S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10956148 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature