Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Patients suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) experience problems in the performance of activities of daily living (ADL) tasks. The objective was to examine the self-reported quality of ADL task performance among COPD patients, and to investigate whether age, gender, and routine COPD characteristics correlate with the self-reported ADL ability.
METHODS: Eighty patients admitted to hospital with COPD exacerbations participated. In a cross-sectional study, the patients' self-reported ADL ability was assessed using the ADL-Interview (ADL-I) instrument. Data concerning age, gender, and routine COPD characteristics were drawn from the patients' medical records.
RESULTS: The patients reported being inefficient to markedly inefficient when performing ADL tasks within the personal hygiene, toileting, dressing, household, mobility, and transportation domains. While more than 90% of the participants reported increased effort and/or fatigue when performing the ADL tasks, up to 88% of the participants relied on help from others in the performance of general household chores like cooking and shopping. Self-reported ADL ability did not correlate with age, gender, or routine COPD characteristics.
CONCLUSIONS: Decreased quality of ADL task performance seemed to be extremely common among COPD patients. Therefore, addressing the problems in individually tailored pulmonary rehabilitation programmes may be advantageous.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Pages (from-to) | 313-320 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| ISSN | 1103-8128 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Jul 2014 |
Keywords
- Activities of Daily Living
- Age Factors
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Caregivers
- Cross-Sectional Studies
- Fatigue
- Humans
- Middle Aged
- Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
- Quality of Life
- Self Report
- Sex Factors