Education
The education method allowed COPD patients to attend lectures once a week, for seven weeks each for 60–90 min to meet the pulmonologist, psychiatrist and the internist.
The education contents:
(1) Explain the causes, symptoms, and predisposing factors
to COPD patients.
(2) Guide patients to make effective cough, breathing exercises, abdominal breathing method, and enable patients
to demonstrate, the method correct.
(3) Guide patients on oxygen therapy methods and
precautions.
(4) Guide the patient to a proper diet, and instructed
patients that a proper diet is an important role in the
treatment of disease.
(5) Stress the method of medication, time, and inform the
importance of continued drug use.
(6) Quit smoking, to have a regular life style, pay attention
to work and rest balance.
(7) Add cloth when the weather cools to prevent and avoid
cold.
(8) Instruct patients to try not to go to crowded public
places.
(9) Understand the patient’s psychological changes, and
help patients to resolve the disease to their psychological
pressure in time.
(10) Guide families’ supervision of the implementation of
self-management education for patients. In addition,
they were given homework: breathing and relaxation
exercises for 10 min three times daily.