Development of Respercise® a Digital Application for Standardizing Home Exercise in COPD Clinical Trials.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is an important therapy for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), yet uptake remains low. Intervention strategies which recapitulate the benefits of PR are, therefore, needed and digital, home-based therapies present opportunity in this space. Digital therapies also potentially offer an opportunity to standardize PR in clinical trials for new COPD therapies.

Aims and methods

We aimed to create a digital application (app), Respercise^®, consisting of up to 4 strengthening exercises in conjunction with Therbands™ and a daily physical activity program with individualized step goals, and to test its feasibility in a clinical trial. App usability was surveyed qualitatively before development iterations and d

SUBMITTER: Yonchuk JG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8237981 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature