Shuttle Walk Test Performed on a Treadmill Versus a Corridor in Patients With COPD

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Clinical Trial

— (SWTiCOPD)  

Official title:

Analysis of Metabolic and Ventilatory Demands During the Shuttle Walk Test Performed on a Treadmill Versus a Corridor in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02348151
• Other study ID #: DPOCPC
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: January 22, 2015
• Last updated: March 9, 2015
• Start date: January 2014
• Est. completion date: June 2016

Study information

• Verified date: March 2015
• Source: University of Nove de Julho
• Contact: Fernanda C Lanza, PhD
• Phone: 55113385-9241
• Email: lanza[@]uninove.br
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Brazil: Ethics Committee
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

It is still not clearly known whether doing the walk test in a course is different from doing it on a treadmill in the lack of a ten-meter-long corridor. In case of a positive outcome in this study, we will have an alternative for this test in places where there is not enough room, benefiting the assessment of COPD patients' functional capacity. In the literature, there are still some controversies about performing the test on a treadmill or in a corridor and whether there is interference with the distance walked. Our hypothesis is that there is no interference with the distance walked, and thus we have one more option to perform the test in case there is no 10-meter corridor available.

Description:

Spirometry tests will be performed using ULTIMA CPX equipment. Volunteers will perform the tests twice, on different days (see protocol description), in a corridor and on a treadmill, until reaching their limit of tolerance. In the test performed on the treadmill and in the one performed in the corridor, subjects will simultaneously use the VO 2000. And the volunteers will fill out the Saint George's Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ).

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 47
• Est. completion date: June 2016
• Est. primary completion date: March 2015
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years to 85 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• clinically stable

• not dependent on oxygen to exercise

• diagnosis of COPD according to the GOLD

Exclusion Criteria:

• cognitive deficit or musculoskeletal

• in process of exacerbation

• have performed pulmonary rehabilitation

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety Study, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
• Lung Diseases
• Lung Diseases, Obstructive
• Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive

Intervention

Other:
• Treadmill
The volunteers will perform the shuttle walk test on the treadmill
• Corridor
The volunteers will perform the shuttle walk test on the corridor

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Brazil	Patricia Lira dos Santos	Mogi das Cruzes	São Paulo/Mogi das Cruzes

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Nove de Julho

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Brazil, 

References & Publications (2)

Singh SJ, Morgan MD, Scott S, Walters D, Hardman AE. Development of a shuttle walking test of disability in patients with chronic airways obstruction. Thorax. 1992 Dec;47(12):1019-24. — View Citation

Stevens D, Elpern E, Sharma K, Szidon P, Ankin M, Kesten S. Comparison of hallway and treadmill six-minute walk tests. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 1999 Nov;160(5 Pt 1):1540-3. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	The distance reached in shuttle walk test		two year	No