The Effects of Physical Activity Tele-Counseling Intervention in Post-COVID-19 Conditions

The Effects of Physical Activity Tele-Counseling Intervention on Physical Activity, Functional Performance, and Quality of Life in Post-COVID-19 Conditions: A Randomized Controlled Trial

It has been found that physical activity recommendations with telerehabilitation in different disease groups improve the functional capacity, physical activities and mental health of the patients as much as the supervised exercise programs. However, there are no studies in the literature that provide online physical activity counseling in COVID-19 patients, and evaluate the effect of physical activity counseling on physical activity level, quality of life, physical performance, fatigue, kinesophobia, pain, dyspnea, mental health and behavior change levels. For this reason, this study aimed to evaluate the effect of online physical activity counseling on physical activity level, quality of life, physical performance, fatigue, kinesophobia, pain, dyspnea, mental health and behavior change level in COVID-19 patients.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Covid19
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Physical activity counseling

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 28
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Turkey
  • Emek
    • Ankara, Emek, Turkey, 06490
      • Gazi University

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 14 years to 61 years (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Individuals who have suffered COVID-19 and have passed at 3 months after the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test turned negative
• Volunteering to participate in the research

Exclusion Criteria:

• Having another diagnosed respiratory or cardiac problem
• Having infections during the evaluation
• Having a skeletal-muscular disease that may affect the evaluation results
• Having neurological and psychiatric problems
• Individuals with restrictions that prevent being physically active during the evaluation and counseling program.
• Pregnant individuals

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
No Intervention: Control Group
Experimental: Counseling group	Behavioral: Physical activity counseling; Physical activity counseling will be performed using physical activity behavior steps of the transtheoretical model.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Physical activity level	Physical activity level will be evaluated multi sensor activity monitor for 7 consecutive days.	seven days
General Quality of Life	Quality of Life will be evaluated using Short Form-36 (SF-36) Health Survey Questionnaire	five minutes

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Physical performance	Physical performance will be evaluated using Short Physical Performance Battery	ten minutes
Dyspnea during daily living activities	Dyspnea using Modified Medical Research Council (MMRC) dyspnea scale will be evaluated. Modified Medical Research Council Dyspnea Scale, levels are graded as 0-4, higher scores imply higher dyspnea.	two minutes
Behaviour change level	Behaviour change level will be evaluated using Exercise Behaviour Change Scale.	five minutes
General Pain	Pain will be evaluated using Visual Analog Scale	one minute
Fear of movement	Fear of movement will be evaluated using Tampa Scale of Kinesiophobia	three minutes
Fatigue	Fatigue will be evaluated using Fatigue Severity Scale	Two minutes
Mental Health	Mental Health will be evaluated using Mental Health Continuum Short Form	three minutes

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Gazi University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): April 17, 2021
• Primary Completion (Actual): December 17, 2022
• Study Completion (Actual): June 8, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: April 18, 2021
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 18, 2021
• First Posted (Actual): April 22, 2021

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): September 21, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 17, 2023
• Last Verified: April 1, 2021

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Coronavirus Infections; Coronaviridae Infections; Nidovirales Infections; RNA Virus Infections; Virus Diseases; Infections; Respiratory Tract Infections; Respiratory Tract Diseases; Pneumonia, Viral; Pneumonia; Lung Diseases; COVID-19
• Other Study ID Numbers: 219

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No