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Abstract
The aims of this study was to
- Assessing the patients level of knowledge with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- Assessing the lifestyle of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Research question:
What are the lifestyle of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?
Subjects and methods:-
Convenient sample was used for consecutive six months from January To the end of Jun (2018). Accordingly 50 patients from Beni-Sueif University Hospital.
Research settings:-
This study was conducted in department of chest diseases which consists of 16 beds and chest outpatient clinic at Beni-Sueif University Hospital.
Tools of data collection:-
Data were collected using the following tools:
Tool I: Structured interview questionnaire sheet designed by investigator that include three parts.
Tool II: Miller-Smith lifestyle questionnaire.
Tool III: Lifestyle questionnaire.
The main findings of this study revealed that:
• An analysis of socio-demographic characteristics showed that 50% of studied patients were more than 60 years old, 70% were male, 86% were from rural, also 70% were illiterate, 54% had free business, 28% had pollution and 85% had car gaze pollution.
• An analysis of studied patients’ knowledge the study demonstrate that near to total of them had low level of knowledge about the disease.
• An analysis of lifestyle of studied patients the study demonstrate that more than three quarters of them had poor lifestyle level.
• Regarding to relationship between knowledge and lifestyle the study revealed that, there was a highly statistically significant relation between patients’ knowledge and lifestyle. Also there was a statistically significant relation between knowledge of studied patients and their life style regarding eating habits and between knowledge & physical activity.
Conclusion:
Based on findings of the present study, it can be concluded that:
The present study showed that a half of the studied patients their age >60 years. A majority of studied patients smoke cigarettes. Near to total of studied patient had low level of knowledge about the disease. More than three quarters of the studied patients had poor lifestyle level. The relationship between knowledge of studied patients and their life style regarding eating habits, there were a highly statistically significant relation between patients’ knowledge and lifestyle. Finally, there were no statistically significant relation between patients’ lifestyle and occupation.
The important recommendations inferred from the study results were:
Recommendations for patient related factors:
• Increase public awareness about efficacy and tolerability of the vaccination and modification of lifestyle in preventing COPD through directed program to persons in community.
• Health education through mass media concerning how to deal with exacerbation of the disease.
• Health education program about disease and its treatment modalities should be provided for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients to improve their lifestyle.
• Developing a simplified illustrated and comprehensive Arabic booklet including information about chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lifestyle changes for coping with this disease and its therapeutic regimen.
• The importance of providing patients and their families with adequate knowledge about therapeutic regimen include exercise, diet, smoking cessation, follow up schedules and stress management to enhance their adherence to the therapeutic regimen.
Recommendations for health care givers:
• Continuous assessment of patients with respiratory symptoms and have one or more of chronic obstructive pulmonary risk factors for early detection of the disease and prevention disease exacerbation.
Recommendations for further studies:
• Replication of the study on longer sample to be able to generalize the result study.
• Further studies is recommended to evaluate the effect of lifestyle changes on progression of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.