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Acceptability and validity of a home exercise diary used in home-based pulmonary rehabilitation: A secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial

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Lahham, A and McDonald, CF and Mahal, A and Lee, AL and Hill, CJ and Burge, AT and Cox, NS and Moore, R and Nicolson, C and O'Halloran, P and Gillies, R and Holland, AE, Acceptability and validity of a home exercise diary used in home-based pulmonary rehabilitation: A secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial, The Clinical Respiratory Journal, 12, (6) pp. 2057-2064. ISSN 1752-699X (2018) [Refereed Article]

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Copyright 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd

DOI: doi:10.1111/crj.12773

Abstract

Introduction: Evaluating adherence to home-based pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) could be challenging due to lack of direct supervision and the complex nature of the rehabilitation model. To measure adherence to home-based PR in the HomeBase trial, participants were encouraged to work towards a goal of at least 30 min of whole-body exercise on most days of the week and report their participation using a home exercise diary.

Objective: This project aimed to evaluate the acceptability and validity of the home exercise diary.

Methods: Diary return and completion rates assessed acceptability of the home exercise diary. Home participants underwent physical activity (PA) monitoring using the Sensewear armband during the final week of an 8-week PR. The correlation between self-documented and objective daily exercise minutes was calculated. Objective exercise minutes were defined as bouts of ≥10 min spent in ≥ moderate PA. Differences in self-documented weekly exercise minutes between sufficiently active (≥7000 daily steps) and inactive participants were computed.

Results: Diaries were returned by 92% of programme completers. Of those who returned diaries, 72% have completed exercise documentation. Fifteen programme completers underwent PA monitoring [mean age 69 (9) (SD) years, FEV1 55 (19) %predicted]. A moderate correlation was observed between self-documented and objective mean daily exercise minutes (r = .59, P = .02). Active participants [n = 6, 10 253 (1521) daily steps] documented more exercise (111 min) during week eight compared with inactive participants [n = 9, 2705 (1772) daily steps, P = .002].

Conclusion: The self-documented home exercise diary is an acceptable and valid method to reflect exercise participation during home-based PR.

Item Details

Item Type:Refereed Article
Keywords:motivational interviewing, physical activity, pulmonary disease, chronic obstructive
Research Division:Biomedical and Clinical Sciences
Research Group:Cardiovascular medicine and haematology
Research Field:Respiratory diseases
Objective Division:Expanding Knowledge
Objective Group:Expanding knowledge
Objective Field:Expanding knowledge in the health sciences
UTAS Author:Lahham, A (Dr Aroub Lahham)
ID Code:128342
Year Published:2018
Web of Science® Times Cited:8
Deposited By:Menzies Institute for Medical Research
Deposited On:2018-09-14
Last Modified:2018-10-19
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