Self-care support for people with COPD
Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
Record ID 32014001374
English
Authors' recommendations:
As the prevalence of long-term conditions increases there is a greater focus on encouraging people to manage their condition(s).
Self-care has been identified as integral to maintaining the health and wellbeing of people with COPD.
There is consistent evidence that multicomponent interventions reduce respiratory-related hospital admissions
and improve quality of life for people with COPD.
Multicomponent interventions that include action plans, exercise, education and smoking cessation are likely to be beneficial.
Smoking cessation programmes are more successful when people are informed about the link between smoking and COPD, have an action plan, and make use of social support.
Hospital- and community-based pulmonary rehabilitation has some short-term impact on health-related quality of life and hospital admissions, but the effects of home-based rehabilitation are unclear.
Details
Project Status:
Completed
Year Published:
2014
URL for published report:
http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/pdf/COPD%20self%20care.pdf
English language abstract:
An English language summary is available
Publication Type:
Not Assigned
Country:
England
MeSH Terms
- Self Care
Contact
Organisation Name:
University of York
Contact Address:
University of York, York, Y01 5DD, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 1904 321040, Fax: +44 1904 321041,
Contact Name:
crd@york.ac.uk
Contact Email:
crd@york.ac.uk
Copyright:
University of York
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