Accommodating to a troubled life - chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients' experiences and perceptions of self-image during the course of rehabilitation.

CONCLUSIONS: Group-based pulmonary rehabilitation can support chronic pulmonary obstructive disease patients towards significant change in self-image and health behaviour, leading to improved illness management. Enlarged opportunities to benefit from peer-fellowship and enhanced focus on what is essential to the participants might expand the rehabilitation yields. PMID: 30763522 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Tags: Disabil Rehabil Source Type: research