NCT05575102

Walking Football for People With Chronic Breathlessness

Completed NA Last updated 10 April 2024

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Walking Football in Dyspnea in 6 participants. Completed in 13 December 2023.

Timeline

22 March 2023

Primary endpoint
29 June 2023

13 December 2023

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Teesside University
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	na
Design	single group
Masking	none
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	6
Start date	22 March 2023
Primary completion	29 June 2023
Estimated completion	13 December 2023
Sites	1 location across United Kingdom

Drugs / interventions tested

• Walking Football

Conditions studied

• Dyspnea — all drugs for Dyspnea →

Sponsor

Teesside University

Who can join

35 and older, any sex, with Dyspnea. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

The objective of this study is to evaluate the feasibility of a walking football intervention for people with chronic breathlessness. Chronic breathlessness refers to breathlessness that persists despite optimal treatment of the underlying pathophysiology. Roughly 9-13% of the general population will experience chronic breathlessness, with incidence rising with age to 37% for those aged over 60years.

This mixed-methods study will offer patients who have enrolled on to pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) the prospect to partake in walking football once they have completed their scheduled programmes (or voluntarily dropped-out); introducing a potential opportunity for long-term exercise maintenance post PR. Participants will be recruited from North Tees \& Hartlepool Foundation Trust, and South Tees Foundation Trust.

PR is recommended for all people with chronic breathlessness and has been shown to improve exercise capacity and health-related quality of life. However, PR programmes typically only last for 6-12 weeks, and have little to no impact on long-term physical activity levels. Walking Football has been identified as a potential form of exercise which people with breathlessness could maintain post-PR, thus offering a solution to PRs limited ability to promote exercise maintenance.

Participants will be invited to play walking football for 6-weeks (2-hours weekly) in the Middlesbrough/Stockton area. Before and after weeks 1 and 6, breathlessness-relevant outcomes will be measured including; exercise capacity, lower-limb strength, perceived breathlessness, quality of life, balance confidence, depression, and anxiety.

During a participant's third session, one-time physical intensity outcomes will be calculated during play including heart-rate and perceived intensity. Participants will also be invited to an interview to discuss how feasible they have found the football, any benefits they may have experienced, and how the football programme could be improved.

The study will officially end with a co-production workshop; a focus group with stakeholders (players, physiotherapists, co-ordinators, researchers) after preliminary analysis has been conducted to discuss initial findings.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.