Analysis: Research on Management of Severe Obstructive Lung Disease

This report provides a comprehensive review of a research study focused on the management of severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). It examines the study's background, highlighting the increasing prevalence of COPD and the importance of patient self-management. The review covers the qualitative research design employed, including the use of interpretive and descriptive approaches, purposeful sampling, and thematic data analysis. It discusses the characteristics of the participants, inclusion and exclusion criteria, and the appropriateness of the sampling technique for meeting the research aims. Furthermore, the report details the data collection methods, such as semi-structured interviews and observations, and evaluates their effectiveness. Finally, it summarizes the data analysis process, including the use of grounded theory, and presents the study's results, emphasizing the benefits of home-based rehabilitation and cognitive behavioral therapies in improving self-management and reducing hospitalization rates.

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The Review of the Research Study on the Management of Severe Obstructive Lung Disease
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The Review of the Research Study on the Management of Severe Obstructive Lung Disease
The background of the study
The health issue under study was the severity of chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases
(COPD) and its increasing rate among the patients globally. Therefore, the study involves
examining the patient’s perception of the knowledge of self-management on severe breathing
problems. It also includes the processes of recognizing severe COPD, and self-managing of the
breathing difficulties and distressing desires by patients at home with the help of nurses.
The previous research indicates that the patients with progressive COPD were unwilling
to take part in therapies and medication process to assist them recover or reduce severe
symptoms. The earlier study, on the “Home-based COPD psycho-education: A qualitative study
of the patients'” article, indicates that the experiences shows that despite the knowledge of
patients about the severity of COPD, patients resist in sharing the health problem experience
with the health practitioners.
The relevance in this study is enhancing researchers with rich information about the
degree of knowledge the patients with COPD possess in terms of acknowledging and managing
the severe obstructive lung disease. The other essentiality of the study is based on the knowledge
and importance of COPD treatment and therapy activities at homes, thus reducing the rate of
hospitalization.
The overview of the research design
The purpose of this research was to determine the knowledge of the individuals with
severe COPD, and also to determine how the patients get to understand the severity of COPD,

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the importance of therapies and skill acquiring on managing the distressing symptoms and
breathing problems at home.
The qualitative research design was used in this study as described by (Bove, Midtgaard,
Kaldan, Overgaard & Lomborg (2017). The method used was the interpretive, descriptive
approach whereby, the open-ended questions were used and the data were recorded. The
interview was conducted to investigate the level of knowledge of patients to recognizing the
severity of COPD and the importance of managing COPD symptoms at home.
The principal aspects of qualitative research design as described by Ormston, Spencer,
Barnard & Snape (2014) include; first, examining the existing ideology on the perception of the
patient knowledge about the severity of COPD by observing and interpreting the present
perception from existing phenomenon. The other principal aspect is that the target of the study
involves collecting data by interviewing selected individuals or group of patients with severe
COPD. The use of purposeful sampling technique to acquire adequate knowledge on the COPD
experience perception of patients interviewed is described as the third characteristic of
qualitative research design. The last feature of the qualitative descriptive design involves the use
of content and thematic data analysis method to constitute similar findings and reduce confusion.
The objective of the research was to examine the knowledge of patients with severe
COPD and determining the knowledge level of patients on recognizing and managing COPD and
stress at home. Therefore, the Ethnography research design added value to the study due to the
ability of researchers to observe, interpret and analyze the cultural beliefs of the selected
participants. The phenomenological research design helped researchers to critically interview the
patients and examine the disease experience of the patient and how they manage the symptoms.
Sampling

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The study population involved individuals and the focused group selected from previous
COPD patient records. The research involved patients who were frequently hospitalized and their
family members. The patients were identified to have experiences on stress, breathing difficulties
and dyspnea (Williams, Hardinge, Ryan & Farmer, 2014).
The inclusion criteria in the study included patients with severe COPD based on the
Global Initiative for Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) and were ranked as C and D or GOLD II
III and IV (Williams et al., 2014). The patients experienced distressing symptoms with varying
degrees, had attended the pulmonary recovering program and had used the oxygen machine at
home. The exclusion criteria included frequent hospitalization, high symptom burden, ineffective
life quality and malfunctioning.
The necessity of identifying the inclusion and exclusion criteria before the recruitment
includes, simplifying the process of determining the target population throughout different
studies, in order to recruit patients to participate. The other importance includes reducing the cost
to be used during the recruitment process and to avoid conducting similar studies in one field.
Finally, determining the criteria aids in selecting willing individuals to take part in the study by
informing them the benefits of the research.
The purposive sampling technique was used in the study (Bove et al., 2017). The use of
purposeful sampling tools was to provide the researchers with appropriate information
concerning the study on the severe COPD. The random sampling tool enabled the researchers to
select the patients with experience and knowledge on the severe COPD to participate in the study
(Ormston et al., 2014). This was generally to gather information from the primary sources
concerning the existing health phenomenon. In the study, the purposive sampling technique
provides information on examining and developing rehabilitation and therapy activities at home.

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The use of purposeful sampling technique met the aim of the study because it provided
the researchers with the information-rich on the implementation of home-based therapies and
rehabilitation, thus facilitating the self-management process to reduce symptoms of distress and
recover from severe COPD.
Data collection
Gathering data entailed the use of semi structured interviews and focus group. This
enhanced interviewer-respondent interaction, thus generating bulk information. The interviewed
was one-on-one and through phone calls. Data was recorded in audio files aided in capturing of
the information details concerning the experience of managing distress symptoms at home.
Observation method was used and researchers interpreted the acquired information. Researchers
collected data by observing the physical behavior of the patients such as the breathing process
(Williams et al., 2014).
The trained interviewers educated and monitored the patient therapeutic behavior at
homes. Nurses followed up interviewed patients after 14 days to influence COPD self-
management. Nurses created good relationship with the respondents informing them the benefits
of the study. The researchers observed the physical behavior of patients such as the breathing
difficultness, the causes and frequency of coughing and the body strength, thus enabling the
researchers acquire bulk-information.
The use of semi structured interviews fit the aim of the study as it provided the
researchers with the ability to gather the rich information from the primary sources as described
by Williams et al. (2014). Observations and one-on-one interview aided in identifying the level
of understanding the importance of patient self-management activities. The difficulties of self-
management process among the patients were figured and the researchers sought ways of

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improving the implementation of home based rehabilitation and therapies. However, the aim of
the study was met since the researchers were able to collect and store primary information,
through face-to-face addressing of selected patients.
The importance of the interview and observation methods include: First, the researchers
accessed the actual situation of selected individuals. Secondly, the researchers elaborated to the
patients the actual meaning of phrases thus appropriate answers were provided. Lastly,
observation method enabled researchers to identify the level of knowledge among the
participants concerning recognizing and managing severe COPD (Ledikwe et al., 2014). In
contrary, according to Sandelowsky, Krakau, Modin, Ställberg & Nager (2017), the structured
interviews resulted to poor information since the participants were hindered by breathing
difficulties. Observation method was time consuming for researchers had to elaborate the
medical terms to patients. Cultural behavior of individuals resulted to collection of unsatisfying
data.
The suitable method that the researchers could have used to gather information is the
document review (Sandelowsky et al., 2017). The document review includes obtaining more
information from the secondary sources. The method could aid researchers to gain detailed
information and avoid incurring similar failures with previous researches.
The data analysis and the results of the study
The recorded data in audio files were transcribed as were spoken by the interviewer and
the interviewee. The ground theory approach was used to analyze the collected data. Selective
coding and memo writing was constituted for the critical analysis by the health researchers (Bove
et al., 2017). The grounded theory involves investigation of particular information from primary
sources for appropriate analysis. The investigated information was analyzed through the

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methodological strategies to formulate and implement the theoretical themes concerning the
management of severe COPD.
The importance of selecting a suitable method of data analysis, such as open selective
coding and memo writing was to facilitate scientific analysis on the COPD research thus
generating appropriate themes. The grounded theory method is suitable in this study because it
promotes the analysis of general investigated idea in the research. The other significance is
conforming legal the scientific investigation. Grounded theory is of importance since it
combines the data gathering and the analysis processes. The theory constitutes the detailed
procedures to aid in conducting appropriate research.
The rigor of the selective coding analysis was ensured through consideration of proper
analytical process. The awareness of trained researchers influenced the reliability of providing
valid themes. Suitable method of recording and transcribing data was appropriate in order to
avoid bias and inconveniences during analysis. The accuracy and honest ensured that the
analyzed data was preferable and suitable to be applied and used in the future in order to
facilitate the home-based self-management activities (Ledikwe et al., 2014).
The results of the study revealed that the development of the home-based rehabilitations
and cognitive behavioral therapies improves the self-management processes on symptoms of
anxiety thus reducing the rate of hospitalization. The study also indicates that the gained medical
knowledge has helped patients with severe COPD identify the health issue, contact the health
professionals and finally be able to manage the symptoms of distress. The findings indicates that
the caregivers gained adequate knowledge suitable for encouraging and helping the patients
during home-based rehabilitation period and self-management.

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The patient care plans could use these findings in influence patients and caregivers to
recognizing and managing the anxiety symptoms and severe COPD among patients. It is likely
that these findings could be used in clinical areas to facilitate the understanding of home based
self-management of stress and treatment of severe COPD thus reducing the rate of
hospitalization.

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