Smartphone-App as Maintenance Program in COPD

Launched by KAIA HEALTH SOFTWARE · Mar 5, 2020

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ClinConnect Summary

This is a randomized, controlled, open-label, multi-centered trial carried out at in-patient PR-hospital centers in Germany and Switzerland . The interventions will involve use of KAIA COPD-app program (Arm 1) or an active comparator i.e. usual care (Arm 2). Patients completing an in-hospital PR-Program and consenting to participate in the study will be screened for the inclusion and exclusion criteria and enrolled in the study. After fulfillment of the screening requirements, they will be randomized into one of the two arms with parallel group assignment in a 1:1 ratio. The training progra...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • COPD Patients willing and able to sign informed consent for use of their pseudonymized clinical data within the scope of the present interventional trial
• • COPD patients who have completed an in-hospital pulmonary rehabilitation program with an average duration of 2-3 weeks.
• • Diagnosis of COPD, defined as forced expiratory volume in 1s/forced vital capacity (FEV1/FVC) \<70% predicted, FEV1\<80 % predicted after bronchodilation, with or without chronic symptoms (cough, sputum production) corresponding to a GOLD stage II-IV
• • Completion of the screening period and fulfilling of the randomization criteria as defined by the protocol
• • Ability to use a smartphone and smartphone-apps
• • Willingness to wear an activity tracker during study period of 6 months
• • Patients ≥40 years of age.
• • Knowledge of German language to understand study material, assessments and contents of the COPD-App
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • The Patient is not able to conduct the exercise training program due to physical, cognitive or safety reasons, as judged by investigator; e.g., lower limb joint surgery within preceding 3 months, unstable cardiac disease, predominant neurological limitations, planned surgical or other interventions disturbing the study intervention.
• • Significant psychiatric disorders, legal incapacity or limited legal capacity.
• • Patients participation in another clinical trial with an investigational medication within 30 days prior to study entry.
• • Patients already using the KAIA COPD App