Publications by authors named "J M Grosbois"
Objectives: To evaluate the short-term and long-term benefits of adding a weekly educational session to a traditional 8-week home-based pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) programme in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Primary hypothesis was that 8 home-based supervised sessions will be equivalent to 16 home-based supervised sessions at both short- and long-term after PR.
Design: Retrospective cohort study conducted on prospectively collected real-life data, from January 2010 to December 2021.
The functional equivalence model suggests a common internal representation initiates both imagery and execution. This suggestion is supported by the mental chronometry effect, where there is a positive relation between task difficulty (as defined by the Index of Difficulty; ID) and imagined movement time. The present study extends this logic by examining whether imagery captures the spatial trajectory.
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- Pulmonary rehabilitation is essential for individuals with chronic lung diseases, but access to these services is limited, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, making telerehabilitation a valuable option.
- The study focuses on validating the 6-minute stepper test (6MST) as a home-friendly alternative to traditional exercise tests like the maximal cardiopulmonary exercise test (CPET) and the 6-minute walk test (6MWT).
- Researchers will assess 6MST’s validity and reliability through a multinational study with 30 participants, collecting data on its correlation with CPET and 6MWT, as well as monitoring experiences during home-based testing.
Background: Our objective was to evaluate the short-, medium- and long-term benefits of home-based pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) on the physical and affective components of dyspnoea in people with fibrotic idiopathic interstitial pneumonias (f-IIPs). Anxiety and depressive symptoms, fatigue, health-related quality of life and exercise tolerance were also assessed.
Methods: Data on 166 individuals with f-IIPs who enrolled in an 8-week home-based PR programme (weekly supervised 90-min session) were retrospectively analysed.