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Protocol for a single-centre mixed-method pre–post single-arm feasibility trial of a culturally appropriate 6-week pulmonary rehabilitation programme among adults with functionally limiting chronic respiratory diseases in Malawi

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  • Fanuel Meckson Bickton Lung Health Research Group, Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, MalawiUCL GOS Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Talumba Mankhokwe Physiotherapy Department, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Southern Region, Malawi PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Rebecca Nightingale Lung Health Research Group, Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, MalawiClinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Cashon Fombe Physiotherapy Department, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Southern Region, Malawi PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Martha Mitengo Physiotherapy Department, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Southern Region, Malawi PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Langsfield Mwahimba Physiotherapy Department, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Southern Region, Malawi PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Wilfred Lipita Physiotherapy Department, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Southern Region, Malawi PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Laura Wilde Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, Leicestershire, UKCentre for Exercise and Rehabilitation Science, NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre Respiratory Diseases, Leicester, East Midlands, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ilaria Pina Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, Leicestershire, UKCentre for Exercise and Rehabilitation Science, NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre Respiratory Diseases, Leicester, East Midlands, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Zainab K Yusuf Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, Leicestershire, UKCentre for Exercise and Rehabilitation Science, NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre Respiratory Diseases, Leicester, East Midlands, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Zahira Ahmed Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, Leicestershire, UKCentre for Exercise and Rehabilitation Science, NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre Respiratory Diseases, Leicester, East Midlands, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Martin Kamponda Medicine Department, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Southern Region, Malawi PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Felix Limbani Lung Health Research Group, Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Harriet Shannon UCL GOS Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Enock Chisati Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Andy Barton Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, Leicestershire, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Robert C Free Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, Leicestershire, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Michael Steiner Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, Leicestershire, UKCentre for Exercise and Rehabilitation Science, NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre Respiratory Diseases, Leicester, East Midlands, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jesse A Matheson Department of Economics, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Adrian Manise NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Sally J Singh Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, Leicestershire, UKCentre for Exercise and Rehabilitation Science, NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre Respiratory Diseases, Leicester, East Midlands, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jamie Rylance Lung Health Research Group, Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, MalawiClinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Mark Orme Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, Leicestershire, UKCentre for Exercise and Rehabilitation Science, NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre Respiratory Diseases, Leicester, East Midlands, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Fanuel Meckson Bickton; fbickton{at}mlw.mw
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Bickton FM, Mankhokwe T, Nightingale R, et al
Protocol for a single-centre mixed-method pre–post single-arm feasibility trial of a culturally appropriate 6-week pulmonary rehabilitation programme among adults with functionally limiting chronic respiratory diseases in Malawi

Publication history

  • Received September 20, 2021
  • Accepted December 13, 2021
  • First published January 31, 2022.
Online issue publication 
July 17, 2023

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