Home-centred physical fitness programme in morbidly obese individuals: a randomized controlled trial.

Objective: To assess the effectiveness of domiciliary physical fitness programmes in obese individuals.

Design: Nine-month randomized controlled trial.

Setting: Home-based intervention with outpatient visits.

Occupational therapy and pulmonary rehabilitation of disabled COPD patients.

Background: Occupational therapy (OT) has been defined as a task of rehabilitation for disabled patients, giving them maximal function and independence to sustain specific activities of daily living.

Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of OT as an adjunctive measuring during pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) of hospitalized COPD patients.

Methods: A prospective clinical trial with parallel groups was undertaken in severely disabled COPD patients (n = 71, age 73 +/- 5 years).