PICk-UP: PersonalIsed CommUnity-based Physical Activities for Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

After completing a pulmonary rehabilitation programme, participants will enrol a 6-months personalised community-based physical activity programme, which will include 2 sessions/week, with the aerobic training being the cornerstone. Patients will receive the PICk UP manual and a diary to register their physical activities. During the 1st month the physiotherapist will guide patients through 4 types of outdoors and indoors physical activities. Patients will then be asked to choose and commit to 1 or 2 activities, according to their preferences, which they shall integrate for another 5 months. During this period, the support provided by physiotherapist will decrease over time.

Patients will receive the same pulmonary rehabilitation programme as the experimental group, i.e., exercise training twice a week and education and psychosocial support once every other week, which integrates physical activity recommendations.