TY - JOUR T1 - Associations Between Self-Management Behaviors and Psychological Resilience in Patients With COPD JF - Respiratory Care DO - 10.4187/respcare.10416 SP - respcare.10416 AU - En-Ming Chang AU - Li-Sheng Chen AU - Yang-Tzu Li AU - Chi-Tsung Chen Y1 - 2023/02/28 UR - http://rc.rcjournal.com/content/early/2023/02/28/respcare.10416.abstract N2 - 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. ER -