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Home-Based Prescribed Pulmonary Exercise in Patients with Stable Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Published on: August 24, 2019
Barriers to adherence to home-based pulmonary rehabilitation among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary
Ramin Sami1, Kobra Salehi2, Marzieh Hashemi1
1Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Science, Isfahan, Iran.
Objectives:
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a chronic disease with numerous complications. Therefore, its effective management depends on home-based pulmonary rehabilitation. The effectiveness of home-based pulmonary rehabilitation programmes in turn depends on patient adherence to them. The aim of this study was to explore the barriers to adherence to home-based pulmonary rehabilitation among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Design:
Qualitative descriptive design.
Setting:
The lung care wards of Al-Zahra and Khorshid teaching hospitals and the comprehensive lung care clinic of Khorshid hospital, Isfahan, Iran.
Participants:
Participants patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (n=20), their family caregivers (n=15) and healthcare providers (n=14) recruited via purposive sampling.
Results:
The five main categories of the barriers to adherence to home-based pulmonary rehabilitation among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease were patient-related barriers, caregivers' caregiving burden, limited support for patients, healthcare providers' limited professional competence and ineffective home-based pulmonary rehabilitation planning.
Conclusion:
Different and complex factors related to patients, families and healthcare providers can affect adherence to home-based pulmonary rehabilitation among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Healthcare authorities can use the findings of this study to develop strategies to support patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and their family caregivers and thereby reduce the physical and mental complications of Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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