Assessment of Physical Activity and Quality of Life in Adults with Asthma and COPD, Who Underwent Pulmonary Function Studies
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Nursing and health Science - Year 2019, Vol 8, Issue 1
Abstract
Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) are very common diseases in all age groups throughout the world, as well as impairing the quality of life and physical activity of the affected patients. Pulmonary function tests provide important data on the diagnosis, follow-up of the disease course and evaluation of treatment outcomes. In this study, which aimed to assess physical activity and quality of life in adult subjects with asthma and COPD who underwent pulmonary function studies, 59.2% of the patients were female, the majority (79.4%) were married, and the general part of these patients (93.6%) has a very active level of physical activity. With worsening of COPD stage, there was a deterioration in the results of pulmonary function tests (FEV1, FVC, FEV1/FVC) with a statistically significant difference (p = .000). Except for the presence of chronic diseases and the 'social functioning' and 'mental health' sub-dimensions of SF-36 scale, there was statistically significant difference in the sub-dimensions of 'Pain', 'General Health Perception', 'energy/vitality', 'role limitation due to emotional problems (role-emotional)', 'role limitation due to physical problems (role-physical)' and 'physical functioning’ (p <.05) . It has been determined that there is no correlation between all sub-dimensions of the SF-36 quality of life scale and the parameters of pulmonary function test
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Sevcan Sevimli, Berna Dincer, Abdullah Beyhan
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- DOI 10.9790/1959-0801021219.
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