Examination of usefulness of exercise testing in small space

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20K19421
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Basic Section 59010:Rehabilitation science-related
• Research Institution: Tohoku Bunka Gakuen University
• Principal Investigator: Takahashi Kazuki 東北文化学園大学, 医療福祉学部, 講師 (20404759)
• Project Period (FY): 2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: 運動耐容能

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study was funded to conduct a step test without movement as an exercise test that can be performed in a small space in COPD patients, and to examine its feasibility as an assessment of exercise tolerance. As basic research for this study, the 2-minute step test (2MST) was examined in healthy subjects, and high validity and reliability were obtained.
However, although it was planned to conduct this study in a hospital after the above basic research, the spread of the new coronavirus infection since 2020 has made it difficult to conduct exercise tests with COPD patients, and data on COPD patients was not obtained.

Free Research Field

呼吸理学療法

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究は、2020年度からの新型コロナウイルス感染症の拡大に伴いCOPD患者に対する運動負荷試験の実施が困難となったため、COPD患者でのデータ取得には至らなかった。しかし、移動を伴わず、かつ精度ある運動負荷試験の実施は今後の地域リハビリテーションにて重要な知見となると考える。本研究では健常者の基礎研究にとどまっているが、健常者での信頼性および妥当性が示されたことから、今後COPD患者にてデータを取得して6分間歩行試験に代わる試験として示すことができるよう継続して実施していく。