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. 2017 Apr 12:12:1163-1172.
doi: 10.2147/COPD.S129325. eCollection 2017.

Self-rated health aspects among persons living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Anne-Grethe Halding  1 , Ellen Karine Grov  1
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Self-rated health aspects among persons living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Anne-Grethe Halding et al. Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis. .

Abstract

Purpose: To describe a cohort of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients and perform a within-group comparison regarding self-management activation, social provision, and health status.

Patients and methods: A cross-sectional survey including 116 persons.

Results: The sample comprised 65 men and 38 women, mean age 69 years. Fourteen percent reported very high impact of COPD on their health; 19% had received pulmonary rehabilitation offers, 39% had been offered self-management education, and 64% had acute hospital admissions due to COPD complications in the past year. Persons with COPD Assessment Test (CAT) scores ≥30 reported significantly poorer self-management activation and significantly lower social provision than those reporting CAT scores <30. Number of COPD years had no significant influence on COPD health care consultations or self-management activation.

Conclusion: Persons with COPD reported decreasing social provision with increasing COPD years and poorer health status. Although COPD is a progressive disease, health status and self-management activation did not vary with number of COPD years. Those living with a very high COPD impact on health reported significantly lower self-management activation but fewer acute hospital admissions.

Practice implications: COPD patients' need for pulmonary rehabilitation, self-management support, and social support should be assessed and appropriate services offered throughout the disease trajectory.

Keywords: COPD Assessment Test; PAM; participatory research; patient activation measure; pulmonary rehabilitation; self-management; social support.

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Disclosure The authors report no conflicts of interest in this work.

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