Pain in Veterans with COPD: relationship with physical activity and exercise capacity.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pain is a common but underappreciated symptom experienced by people with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). The relationships between pain and physical activity (PA) and exercise capacity are poorly understood.

Methods

This retrospective secondary analysis includes three cohorts of Veterans with COPD who participated in longitudinal studies evaluating PA and exercise capacity with objective measures of daily step counts and 6-min walk test (6MWT) distance, respectively. Pain was assessed using the bodily pain domain of the Veterans RAND-36. In two cohorts, participants were randomly assigned to a web-based, pedometer-mediated PA intervention which has previously been demonstrated to improve PA.

Results

Three-hundred and seventy-three (373) unique

SUBMITTER: Raphaely RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8280683 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature