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  • Hope: a construct central to living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

    Author(s)
    Milne, Linda
    Moyle, Wendy
    Cooke, Marie
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Cooke, Marie L.
    Moyle, Wendy
    Milne, Linda
    Year published
    2009
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    Abstract
    Background. Hope plays an integral role in health and illness and may assist individuals to cope in difficult and adverse circumstances, for instance when living with an illness such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which can demand continuous adaptation. Aim. This paper reports the meaning of hope in people living with COPD as described by seven participants involved in a home-based pulmonary maintenance program. Methods. Using an interpretive phenomenological approach a purposive sample of seven participants were interviewed to understand participants' experiences of the phenomena of hope. An ...
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    Background. Hope plays an integral role in health and illness and may assist individuals to cope in difficult and adverse circumstances, for instance when living with an illness such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which can demand continuous adaptation. Aim. This paper reports the meaning of hope in people living with COPD as described by seven participants involved in a home-based pulmonary maintenance program. Methods. Using an interpretive phenomenological approach a purposive sample of seven participants were interviewed to understand participants' experiences of the phenomena of hope. An interpretative description is provided. Results. Thematic analysis revealed a number of themes, including that hope persists despite chronic illness and the unpredictable dilemmas of living with COPD. Many benefits were found to be gained from involvement in a home-based pulmonary maintenance program, including increasing exercise capacity, hope and wellbeing. Conclusion. Despite the limitations imposed by living with COPD participants revealed a determination to live as normal a life as possible. The pulmonary maintenance program was pivotal in assisting participants to improve exercise capacity, hope and wellbeing. Nurses may have a role to play in helping people with COPD maintain or regain hope.
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    Journal Title
    International Journal of Older People Nursing
    Volume
    4
    Issue
    4
    Publisher URI
    http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118500962/home
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-3743.2009.00185.x
    Subject
    Clinical Nursing: Tertiary (Rehabilitative)
    Nursing
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/30603
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