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Study aim
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Determining the effect of Using of Pulmonary Rehabilitation at Home on Pulmonary Function, anxiety and depression in Patients with Covid 19 In Afzalipoor Hospital
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Design
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A clinical trial with 70 patients with Covid will be performed by simple random allocation using sealed and numbered envelopes, equally in the control and intervention groups.
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Settings and conduct
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Eligible patients in Afzalipour Hospital are divided into control and intervention groups. The control group will receive routine care. The intervention group will receive a pulmonary rehabilitation program.
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Participants/Inclusion and exclusion criteria
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Inclusion criteria: Patients with a history of non-invasive ventilation, having minimum literacy of reading and writing and having a caregiver at home.
Non-Inclusion criteria: Having a motor or orthopedic disease, have a history of known mental illness or taking drugs that affect the psyche or any other chronic illness (including Chronic respiratory diseases, kidney, thyroid, cancer, and of drug addiction), have a history of severe physical illness (such as a pacemaker, left and right heart failure, uncontrolled hypertension, and patients with Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pneumo Thrombo Embolism), have a history of heart or chest surgery, the patient is a professional athlete, having Saturation of Peripheral Oxygen less than 90% at the time of discharge, patients with hypoxia with little activity and their heart rate exceed 120, A history of stressful events such as the deaths of first-degree relatives in the past six months and the inability to make telephone calls after the patient is discharged.
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Intervention groups
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Patients in the control group receive routine care.
Patients in the intervention group receive a pulmonary rehabilitation program for 4 weeks
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Main outcome variables
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Spirometric indicators, anxiety and depression