CONCLUSION
The use of phenomenology as a research
methodology fulfilled the aim of gaining a greater understanding of the experience of living with COPD. It provided valuable insights into how patients viewed the overall impact and their subsequent degree of coping with COPD in daily life. Undoubtedly, this condition has detrimental effects on participants’ daily lives and cause disability. Actively listening to patient’s individual accounts is a very important process in developing the services for patients with COPD. Further consideration of the themes discussed in this study may help healthcare professionals to increase their field of knowledge about their patients and add breadth and depth to their body of knowledge on this subject. This increased understanding will enable professionals to select strategies that will enhance patient care and their management and promote the best quality of life possible within the limits set by individual capabilities.