Effects of a Disease Self-Management Program on Quality of Life and Related Factors among Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a major individual and public health problem. This study use Bandura’s self-efficacy theory to design the strategies of self-management program. The purpose of this study is to explore the long-term effect on social support, disease knowledge, self-efficacy, self-management behavior, quality of life, and emergency visit and hospitalization. This study is a randomized two-group pretest-posttest research design. It will conduct over 3 years in outpatient department of a medical center in Northern Taiwan. Each group will expect to recruit 50 participants. All participants provided written informed consent, and then received 4 times data collection (prior self-management program beginning, 4 months, 8 months and 12 months). The control group receives the usual care and the booklet of daily life self-management of COPD. The experimental group receives the self-management program as an addition to care as usual. The self-administrated questionnaires include scales of social support, disease knowledge, self-efficacy, self-management behavior, and EQ-5D. The results will use descriptive statistics to describe the study variables. Generalized estimating equations will use to analysis the change pattern of study variables and to evaluate the effect of self-management program.

Project ID:PC10308-0650
External Project ID:MOST103-2314-B182-040