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Very brief advice for pulmonary rehabilitation

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Open to: All Genders

Age: Adult

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Medical Conditions

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

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Over 1.2 million people living in the UK live with a lung condition known as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) which causes people to get short of breath. A treatment that helps with shortness of breath is an exercise and education programme called pulmonary rehabilitation (called rehab for short). However, only a small number of people are referred for and start rehab. People from ethnic minority groups, those living in poor areas, women and older people are less likely to be referred. Increasing the number of people receiving rehab is an urgent NHS priority.
In the past, there were similar problems with the referral of smokers to stop smoking services. However, a way of changing people’s behaviour, called Very Brief Advice, has increased the number of people referred for support and who stop smoking. Very Brief Advice, which is widely used in the NHS, involves an online training course for healthcare workers that teaches them how to discuss a referral to stop smoking services with smokers. Changing Very Brief Advice so it can be used by healthcare workers to discuss a rehab referral with people living with COPD may be a way to increase the number of people who agree to be referred to rehab.
Working with different types of people living with COPD, their carers/family and healthcare workers, this study aims to change Very Brief Advice so it can be used by healthcare workers to discuss a rehab referral with people with COPD (called Very Brief Advice for rehab).

Start dates may differ between countries and research sites. The research team are responsible for keeping the information up-to-date.  

The recruitment start and end dates are as follows:

01 Jun 2024 30 Oct 2025

People living with COPD, their carers/family and healthcare workers will be interviewed online or by telephone or in their home, if they don't use the Internet. This is to understand the problems around rehab referral and how Very Brief Advice can be changed to discuss a rehab referral. Together, people living with COPD, healthcare workers, researchers and the National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training, the organisation that developed Very Brief Advice, will change Very Brief Advice and develop the online training course to teach healthcare workers how to use Very Brief Advice to discuss a rehab referral. This will be done by a series of co-design workshops and focus groups online, or by telephone if the participant doesn't use the Internet. More funding will then be sought to test whether Very Brief Advice for rehab works and is acceptable to people living with COPD.


People aged 18 years and over living with COPD, their carers and family, as well as healthcare professionals who work in or refer people living with COPD for pulmonary rehabilitation can take part in the study.

You can take part if:



You may not be able to take part if:


Cognitive impairment that would preclude taking part in an interview and/or workshop


Below are the locations for where you can take part in the trial. Please note that not all sites may be open.

  • Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Respiratory Care
    EC4A 1AB
  • Asthma and Lung UK
    18 Mansell Street
    London
    E1 8AA
  • Breathe Easy Andover
    SP116TY
  • Breathe Easy Basingstoke
    RG224NN
  • Breathe Easy Darlington
    DL14DH
  • Breathe Easy South Sea
    PO29QA
  • Bristol University Primary Care Network
    BS81TH
  • Caribbean and African Health Network
    M130LN
  • Community Pharmacy England
    DA12JH
  • The Confederation Hillingdon Cic OOH
    Link-1a Civic Centre High Street
    Uxbridge
    UB8 1UW
  • Council of Somali Organisations
    EC2A 4NE
  • Cumbria and North East Primary Care Network
    No postcode
  • Hillingdon Primary Care Network
    No postcode
  • Homerton Patient Network
    No postcode
  • Keele University Primary Care Network
    ST5 5AU
  • Liskeard and Saltash Breathers
    PL126DJ
  • Live Well with COPD Fareham and Gosport
    No postcode
  • London Pulmonary Rehabilitation Network
    No postcode
  • Market Harborough and Bosworth Primary Care Network
    No postcode
  • National Respiratory/Pulmonary Rehabilitation Network
    No postcode
  • NIHR School for Primary Care Research at University of Oxford
    University of Oxford University Offices Wellington Square
    Oxford
    OX1 2JD
  • Nottingham University Primary Care Network
    NG7 2RD
  • Patient Support groups in North East England
    No postcode
  • Primary Care Respiratory Society
    B93 0LL
  • Royal Brompton Hospital Lay Advisory Group
    SW3 6NP
  • Social Action for Health
    E83DQ
  • Southwest Respiratory Network
    No postcode
  • University Hospitals Leicester Multimorbidity Patient and Public Involvement Group
    LE17RH
  • Social media - LinkedIn
    EC1R 3DA
  • Social media - Twitter/X
    London
    W1B 5AN

This study does not involve any treatment and people who take part are unlikely to benefit from taking part. As a gesture of thanks, participants will be given a ÂŁ25 voucher for taking part in the interview and two focus groups. Participants who take part in the two co-design workshops will be given an additional ÂŁ25 voucher. Healthcare professional participants who take part in the intervention pilot and focus group will be given an additional ÂŁ25 voucher.
This is a low-risk study. Care will be taken to minimise any distress during the study and the following distress protocol will be used to manage any distress that arises:
If participants become upset during any study activity e.g. consent, interview, workshop, focus group, the researcher will first offer to pause, postpone or stop the activity and advise again that participation is voluntary. In the case of severe distress, participants will be encouraged to share their feelings with a member of their healthcare team, or manager if the participant is a healthcare professional. The researcher will offer to contact the participant's healthcare team on their behalf. It is anticipated that distress caused by the research will be infrequent and is likely to reflect the presence of COPD and not the research processes.

Dr Claire Nolan
+44 (0)1895 265949
claire.nolan@brunel.ac.uk



The study is sponsored by Brunel University London and funded by National Institute for Health and Care Research.



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Last updated 13 November 2024

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