Persons With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and High Levels of Activation Improved Their Physical Activity Skills After an Educational Session.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Daily physical activity is part of the self-management of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and didactic information sessions may be insufficient for the provision of these skills. Prior activation can determine sensitivity to these sessions. We evaluated whether the activation in patients with COPD, as measured by the Patient Activation Measure (PAM)-13 questionnaire, determined their responses to an educational group session on physical activity (PA), which were measured with actigraphy by the number of steps/day.

Methods

We conducted an uncontrolled clinical trial in an outpatient clinic with 75 patients with nonexacerbating COPD (forced expiratory volume in 1 second 30%-80%) who were selected consecutively. Patients were provided with

SUBMITTER: Fernandez-Sanchez MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11216225 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature