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Abstract
BACKGROUND: COPD is a common but irreversible disease. Nevertheless, patients with COPD can maintain good quality of life through psychological resilience and effective self-management. However, limited studies have investigated the relationship between self-management behaviors and resilience in patients with COPD. Thus, the present study aimed to determine the factors associated with self-management behaviors and resilience among patients with COPD.
METHODS: A total of 100 subjects with COPD were recruited from a medical center in northern Taiwan from February 2020 to January 2021. Each subject completed a questionnaire based on the 20-item COPD Self-Management Scale and 25-item Resilience Scale through a face-to-face interview. A multiple linear regression model that controlled for sociodemographic and clinical factors was used to examine the relationship between self-management behaviors and resilience.
RESULTS: Analysis of our data indicated that differences in educational level, smoking status, religion, modified Medical Research Council dyspnea scale score, degree of COPD impacting wellbeing, number of COPD-related hospitalizations within 1 year, and self-reported comorbidities were associated with differences in self-management and resilience scores. The GOLD (Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease) D group had the lowest scores for self-management and resilience among GOLD groups A, B, C, and D. Self-management and resilience were positively correlated (r = 0.703, P < .001). In the linear regression model, a better self-management value was associated with a higher resilience score (β = 0.749, P < .001), whereas an increasing resilience score was also associated with a better self-management score (β = 0.461, P < .001).
CONCLUSIONS: This study revealed that self-management and psychological resilience were positively correlated and associated in our linear regression model. Future work may focus on finding the causative relationship between self-management and resilience among patients with COPD.
- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- self-management behavior
- resilience
- modified Medical Research Council Dyspnea Scale
- COPD Assessment Test
- 20-item COPD Self-Management Scale
- 25-item Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale
Footnotes
- Correspondence: Chi-Tsung Chen RRT, Shin Kong Wu Ho Su Memorial Hospital, No. 95, Wen Chang Rd., Shih Lin District, Taipei 11101, Taiwan. E-mail: jackson08036{at}gmail.com
This manuscript was edited by Wallace Academic Editing.
This study was performed at Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital in Taiwan.
The authors have disclosed no conflicts of interest.
The authors declared no financial support was given for this study.
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