"Effect of self-care module among chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) regarding home care management: A cross sectional study in Central Rural India"

Abstract

Disease awareness is an essential factor and has been defined as knowing about disease and being aware of preventive measures and the outcome as well as lifespan; all the informatics about the condition has to be provided.Evaluating the understanding of home care management among COPD patients and examining the impact of the self-care module on their knowledge, taking into account demographic factors. The research design used in the study is one group pretest-posttest research design-a hundred COPD patients, including fifty males and fifty females. Quantitative variables were described as percentage and frequency. A structured demographic sheet revealing age, gender, residence, occupation, nutritional patterns, habits, allergies, living near an industrial area and exposure to biogas, along with a self-care module on home care management, was given to the patients with COPD as an intervention. The analysis was done using inferential and descriptive statistics. A significant improvement in knowledge of home care management was observed from the pretest to the posttest scores, indicating the effectiveness of the self-care module for COPD patients. The calculated tvalue, i.e., 39.83 and the p-value was 0.001. Therefore, it can be concluded that the self-care module had a statistically significant impact on increasing the knowledge of home care management among COPD patients. A considerable number of COPD patients had a deficiency in knowledge regarding the home care management of COPD. The self-care module on home care management for COPD showed remarkable effectiveness. As a result, promoting continuous health education programs can help enhance knowledge of home care management.