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The study looked at whether regular physical activity can influence sleep duration, sleep quality and/or anxiety in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF).
The link between exercise and sleep has already been observed in the literature, but the impact of exercise on sleep is poorly understood. The question is how important is the influence of regular physical activity on sleep, anxiety and depression in patients with COPD or IPF.
Patients will be selected in two ways:
The questionnaires are validated and the time allowed for completion is 45 minutes. The questionnaires will assess sleep quality, anxiety and symptoms of depression.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intervention Group | Patients with COPD or Lung Fibrosis following rehabilitation program will be invited to participate and answer the questionnaires in the beginning and after eight weeks of rehabilitation. |
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| Control group | Patients with COPD or Lung Fibrosis who do not do any regular activity will be invited to participated and answer the questionnaires just once. |
| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Intervention group | Other | Patients with medical condition to follow the rehabilitation program will be asked to answer questionnaires to assess their sleep quality. |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
|---|---|---|
| Changes in sleep quality - sleepiness | Sleep quality will be assessed by the questionnaire "Epworth Sleepiness Scale". A score between 0-5 indicates "lower normal daytime sleeping"; between 6-10 "higher normal daytime sleepiness; 11-12 "mil excessive daytime sleepiness"; 13-15 "moderate excessive daytime sleepiness" and 16-24 "severe excessive daytime sleepiness". | 2 minutes |
| Changes in sleep quality - insomnia | Sleep quality will be assessed by the questionnaire "Insomnia Severity Index ". A scale is used to rank each item, where "0" means "no problem", "1 - mild problem", "2 - moderate" "3 - severe" and "4 very severe problem". The total score is interpreted as absence of insomnia (0-7); sub-threshold insomnia (8-14); Moderate insomnia (15-21); and severe insomnia (22-28). | 2 minutes |
| Changes in sleep quality - "Morningness" or "eveningness" types | Sleep quality will be assessed by the questionnaire "Morningness - Eveningness Questionnaire ". Scores between 42 and 58 indicate "neural types", scores of 59 and above indicate "morning types" and scores of 41 and below indicates "evening types". | 2 minutes |
| Changes in sleep quality - Sleep Agenda | Sleep quality will be assessed by the questionnaire "Sleep Agenda". The sleep agenda is a subjective method of sleep evaluation which demand the patient to fill the agenda at two times of the day: at 9 in the morning to describe what happened at night and 9 in the evening to report what happened in the day for a minimum of three weeks. The patient need to specify the quality of his night, if it was "very good", "good", "average", "bad" and "very bad" and specify, also, if he took any medications or if something happened may have interfered with his sleep. | 4 minutes per day |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Changes in anxiety symptoms | Nijmegen Questionnaire is a valid questionnaire to detect patients who have hyperventilation symptoms which the complaints may not be fully due to physiological abnormality, that is, it reflects a subjective aspect of dysfunctional breathing reflecting anxiety symptoms. Scores > 23 is indicative of dysfunctional breathing. | 3 minutes |
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Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
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Patients with COPD or lung fibrosis.
| Name | Role | Phone | Extension | |
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| Juliana Macedo | Contact | +32470592032 | juliana.ribeiro@uclouvain.be | |
| Gregory Reychler | Contact | gregory.reychler@uclouvain.be |
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| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc | Recruiting | Brussels | 1200 | Belgium |
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| ID | Term |
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| D029424 | Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive |
| D011658 | Pulmonary Fibrosis |
| ID | Term |
|---|---|
| D008173 | Lung Diseases, Obstructive |
| D008171 | Lung Diseases |
| D012140 | Respiratory Tract Diseases |
| D002908 | Chronic Disease |
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| Changes in back pain symptoms | Back pain will be assessed by the "STarT Back Screening Tool". It is a quick-to-use self-administered questionnaire (9 items) that classifies patients with low, medium or high risk of low back pain. The score higher than 5 represents high risk of low back pain. | 2 minutes |
| Changes in back pain symptoms and disability | Back pain will be assessed by "Oswestry Disability Index". It gives a subjective percentage score of level of function (disability) in activities of daily living in those rehabilitating from low back pain. The score goes to 0 to 100 describing the level of disability. The higher the score, the greater the severity of disability. | 2 minutes |
| Changes in depression symptoms | Depression symptoms will be assessed by "Beck Depression Inventory ". It is composed of 21 items of symptoms and attitudes depressives, each category describes a specific behavioral manifestation of depression. The score goes from 1 to 40 describing the level of depression. The higher the score, the greater the severity of depression. | 2 minutes |
| D020969 |
| Disease Attributes |
| D010335 | Pathologic Processes |
| D013568 | Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms |
| D017563 | Lung Diseases, Interstitial |
| D005355 | Fibrosis |