Understanding the Patient Experience of Home-Based Pulmonary Rehabilitation with Health Coaching for COPD: A Qualitative Interview Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We recently reported on a randomized trial of home-based pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that showed improvement in all domains of quality of life, accelerometry-measured physical activity, and self-management. In this current study, we used a theoretical framework to help us gain an in-depth understanding of how patients experience complex, multi-component programs to help uncover factors related to behavior change and to inform program scale-up in other populations.

Study design and methods

The parent trial was conducted with COPD patients receiving care at an academic medical center and a community health system in the upper Midwest. The 12-week PR intervention included 3 daily video-guided exercises, activity moni

SUBMITTER: Midthun WR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10484487 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature