Source: International Congress 2015 – Best abstracts in chronic care
Disease area: Airway diseases

Abstract

Introduction: Occupational therapy can improve occupational outcomes in adults with chronic diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of an occupational therapy intervention after discharge from hospital due to an acute exacerbation (AE) of COPDMethods: Randomized controlled trial. Severe AECOPD patients were included in this study. Patients were asked to identify the activities that were difficult to perform with the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM). The intervention consisted on three sessions of individualized treatment where the occupational therapist focused the treatment in the identified problems. Patients were assessed at discharge from hospital and at one month of discharge. Additionally to COPM, London Chest Activity of Daily Living (LCADL) scale was used to assess dyspnea during ADL in patients with COPD.Results: 26 severe COPD patients were included in the study, the clinical profile of the patients at baseline is shown in table 1.

Clinical profile of patients at baseline.

	OT group (n=14)	Control group (n=12)	p-value
Age (years)			0.869
BMI (kg/m2)			0.809
FVC % predicted			0.102
FEV1 % predicted			0.576
SGRQ total score			0.987

 

Mean change values in COPM performance subscale was of 2.66±1.15 p£0.001 and satisfaction was of 1.66±1.66 p=0.005 . LCADL self-care subscale showed a mean change of 1±2 p=0.111.Conclusions: The results revealed that an occupational therapy program after hospitalization due to AECOPD can improves significantly the occupational performance of the patients.
OT: occupational therapy; BMI: Body Mass Index; FVC: Forced Vital Capacity; FEV1: Forced Expiratory Volume; SGRQ: Saint George Respiratory Questionnaire

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Marie Carmen Valenza (Granada, Spain), Marie Carmen Valenza, Irene Torres-Sanchez, Concepcion Morales-Garcia, Paz Moreno, Janet Rodriguez, Araceli Ortiz. Effectiveness of an occupational therapy program after AECOPD. Eur Respir J 2015; 46: Suppl. 59, 3057

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