Feasibility of a Health Coaching and Home-Based Rehabilitation Intervention With Remote Monitoring for COPD

• Published in: Respiratory care Vol. 66; no. 6; p. 960
• Main Authors: Benzo, Roberto P, Ridgeway, Jennifer, Hoult, Johanna P, Novotny, Paul, Thomas, Benjamin E, Lam, Nyanjok M, V Benzo, Maria, Kramer, Kevin, Seifert, Sara
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.06.2021
• Subjects: COVID-19; Feasibility Studies; Humans; Mentoring; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive; Quality of Life; SARS-CoV-2; home-based; pulmonary rehabilitation; health coaching; COPD

Pulmonary rehabilitation is an effective treatment for patients with COPD, but patient uptake and adherence to the current offering of center-based pulmonary rehabilitation is modest due to transportation, access, poverty, and frailty, and even more so in the context of the COVID pandemic. Home-base...