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Trial reportFrontiers in public health2023

Inpatient post-COVID-19 rehabilitation program featuring virtual reality-Preliminary results of randomized controlled trial.

Sebastian Rutkowski, Katarzyna Bogacz, Anna Rutkowska, Jan Szczegielniak, Richard Casaburi

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Frontiers in public health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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20 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Sebastian RutkowskiFaculty of Physical Education and Physiotherapy, Opole University of Technology, Opole, Poland.
Katarzyna BogaczFaculty of Physical Education and Physiotherapy, Opole University of Technology, Opole, Poland.
Anna RutkowskaFaculty of Physical Education and Physiotherapy, Opole University of Technology, Opole, Poland.
Jan SzczegielniakFaculty of Physical Education and Physiotherapy, Opole University of Technology, Opole, Poland.
Richard CasaburiRehabilitation Clinical Trials Center, Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, United States.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Numerous recommendations from pulmonary scientific societies indicate the need to implement rehabilitation programs for patients after COVID-19. The aim of this study was to propose an innovative comprehensive intervention based on a hospital-based pulmonary rehabilitation program for individuals with post-acute sequelae of COVID-19. Methods: It was decided to evaluate two forms of hospital rehabilitation: traditional and one provided through virtual reality. Preliminary results are based on a group of 32 patients (20 female and 12 male), of average age 57.8 (4.92) years in the period of 3-6 months after the initial infection. Primary outcomes included analysis of lung function, exercise performance and stress level. A 3-week, high-intensity, five-times per week pulmonary rehabilitation program was designed to compare the effectiveness of a traditional form with a VR-led, novel form of therapy. Results: The analysis of the results showed a statistically significant improvement in both groups with regard to exercise performance expressed as 6MWT distance. Moreover, a statistically significant decrease in dyspnoea levels following the 6MWT was also noted in intergroup comparison, but the between-group comparison revealed non-statistically significant changes with low effect size. Regarding lung function, the analysis showed essentially normal lung function at baseline and a non-statistically significant improvement after the completion of the rehabilitation program. The analysis of the stress level showed a statistically significant improvement in both groups within the inter-group comparison, yet the between-group comparison of deltas values showed a non-significant difference with low effect size. Conclusion: A 3-weeks inpatients pulmonary rehabilitation program led to improvement of the exercise performance of people with post-acute sequelae of COVID-19, but not lung function. Furthermore, the program was shown to reduce patients' stress levels. A comparison of the traditional form of rehabilitation to the novel form using VR, shows similar effectiveness in terms of exercise performance and stress levels.

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COVID-19Virtual RealityExerciseExercise TherapyFemaleHumansInpatientsMaleMiddle AgedCOVID-19post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC)post-COVID-19pulmonary rehabilitationvirtual realityvirtual rehabilitation

Identifiers

PMID36815161
PMCPMC9939639

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