What is already known about this topic
● Patient education provides substantial advantages to patients in the management of enduring disease.
● Rehabilitation and patient education can help patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease develop
symptom control and adapt to life with the disease.
● Reports have shown that education programmes based on Roy’s adaptation model are particularly effective in long-term disease. Furthermore, Roy’s adaptation model has been tested in various settings and with various populations, but its validity in the context of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with Roy’s adaptation model of all four adaptive modes has not been investigated.
What this paper adds
● Patient education based on Roy’s adaptation model substantially increased the adaptation to disease of
patients relating to three adaptive modes (physiological, self-concept and role-function mode) in the intervention
group.
● Roy’s adaptation model-based education can provide an improvement in interpersonal support.
● Roy’s adaptation model offers an effective guideline for use in nursing activities to develop adaptation to the disease for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Implications for practice and/or policy
● In Turkey, patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease do not have access to pulmonary rehabilitation
centres for managing their symptoms in every hospital or clinic. Hence, nurses can effectively compensate for this absence by undertaking to facilitate a patient’s adaptation to life with the disease.
● An educational programme based on Roy’s adaptation model should be available for nurses’ use in clinics for
patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Systematic follow-up should be ensured.