Frustrated Caring: Family Members' Experience of Motivating COPD Patients Towards Self-Management.

Jonina Sigurgeirsdottir Sigridur Halldorsdottir Ragnheidur Harpa Arnardottir Gunnar Gudmundsson Eythor Hreinn Bjornsson

Published in: International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (2020)

Family members' experience of motivating COPD patients towards self-management is a sequential process where the family experiences advancing caring burden and declining self-management by the patient. We propose the establishment of COPD patients' teams consisting of patient-family-HP, aimed at the patients' best possible self-management.

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