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Home-Based Prescribed Pulmonary Exercise in Patients with Stable Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Published on: August 24, 2019
Pilot study of an online dyspnea self-management program for COPD
Huong Q Nguyen1, Virginia Carrieri-Kohlman, Sally A Rankin
1School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, USA.
Abstract:
To address some of the shortcomings to providing timely and convenient education and support to patients with COPD, especially in the management of dyspnea, the Internet was considered a viable medium to deliver a previously tested program at a distance to reach more patients. Older COPD patients were able to participate in the program and most were very satisfied with the program. Changes were noted in dyspnea, support, self-efficacy, and exercise.
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