A personalized biomedical risk assessment infographic for people who smoke with COPD: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) causes 3 million deaths each year, yet 38% of COPD patients continue to smoke. Despite proof of effectiveness and universal guideline recommendations, smoking cessation interventions are underused in practice. We sought to develop an infographic featuring personalized biomedical risk assessment through future lung function decline prediction (with vs without ongoing smoking) to both prompt and enhance clinician delivery of smoking cessation advice and pharmacotherapy, and augment patient motivation to quit.

Methods

We recruited patients with COPD and pulmonologists from a quaternary care center in Toronto, Canada. Infographic prototype content and design was based on best evidence. After face validation, the prototype w

SUBMITTER: Gupta S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8734321 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature