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Could a simple bed adjustment improve sleep for COPD patients?

NCT ID NCT04963205

Symptom relief Sponsor: Lowie Vanfleteren Source: ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

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First seen Jun 26, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time

Summary

This study tested whether sleeping with the head and trunk raised (using an adjustable bed backrest) improves sleep quality in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Twenty-four adults with severe COPD and sleep difficulties each tried the raised position and their usual flat position for four weeks each. The goal was to see if the raised position leads to better sleep, less daytime fatigue, and improved breathing during the night.

What this could mean

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Active substance
adjustable bed backrest
What this could lead to
If it works, this could offer a simple, drug-free way for people with COPD to sleep better at home.
What could go wrong
This is a small, early-stage trial with only 24 participants. The results may not apply to everyone with COPD, and the effect on sleep might be small.

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Study facts

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Phase

Not a phased trial

Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.

Participants

24 people

The number who actually took part.

Started

Jan 2022

Finished

Apr 2026

Lead sponsor

A government agency

The lead sponsor is a government body.

Who can take part

This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.

Ages

18 to 100 years

Sex

Anyone

Healthy volunteers

Not accepted

This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.

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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: 1. Confirmed COPD diagnosis 2. FEV1\< 50% 3. COPD grade B, D 4. Male or female patients, aged ≥40 years 5. Difficulties with sleep, as defined by result of 4-5 points in sleep-related question in CAT questionnaire 6. A bed that is possible to adjust to the electric bed backrest 7. Signed informed consent form. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Previous diagnosis or treatment of clinically significant sleep disorder including sleep apnea treated with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), insomnia, restless legs syndrome or frequent parasomnia 2. Long-term stay (\>1 week) away from home during the study period, where there is no possibility to use the electrical bed backrest. 3. Person that cannot communicate in Swedish language. 4. Unable to comply with study procedures as in the opinion of the study investigator (e.g. other severe diseases with short life expectancy or which make it impossible for the patients to participate in the study, evidence of alcohol or drug abuse, dementia, severe psychiatric disorder) 5. Already enrolled in other studies perceived to interfere with this protocol 6. Clinically significant disorders not allowing to maintain a sitting position during sleep including severe back pain, lumbalgia, spinal stenosis 7. Patients inability or unwillingness to sleep in the sitting position.

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Conditions

The condition(s) this trial relates to.

chronic obstructive pulmonary disease COPD, severe early onset sleep disorder

As listed by the trial registrant

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COPD Sleep

Contacts and locations

Locations

  • COPD-center, Sahlgrenska University Hospital

    Gothenburg, VGR, 41345, Sweden

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