How home air quality affects COPD symptoms
Part of Lungs & breathing clinical trials.
This study looks at how the air quality inside your home affects your COPD symptoms. If you have been hospitalized for a COPD flare-up, you may be able to join and help discover if improving your home environment could help you breathe better.
Summary written for real people, not researchers, by Clin2.
Who can take part
- You are 18 or older.
- You have been diagnosed with COPD. (COPD is a lung disease that makes it hard to breathe.)
- You have recently been in the hospital for a worsening of your COPD symptoms.
- You spend more than half of your waking time at home.
- You can speak and understand Dutch.
- You have a smartphone.
- You do not have asthma and you are not currently taking a long-term antibiotic called a macrolide.
- You do not live in a nursing home or care facility.
- Your doctor expects you to live longer than 6 months.
Quick eligibility check
Answer a few plain-language questions, based on this study's own requirements, to get a preliminary sense of fit.
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