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Enfermería Global
On-line version ISSN 1695-6141
Abstract
VALENCIA RICO, Claudia Liliana; HENAO TRUJILLO, Olga María and GALLEGO, Felipe Antonio. Health promotion behaviors and physical dependence in people with clinical diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Enferm. glob. [online]. 2017, vol.16, n.48, pp.56-79. Epub Dec 14, 2020. ISSN 1695-6141. https://dx.doi.org/10.6018/eglobal.16.4.268951.
Objective
To describe health promotion behaviors and the degree of physical dependence in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) diagnosed.
Methodology
This study employed a quantitative correlational approach in which a probabilistic sample of 125 people was obtained. A health-promoting lifestyle Profile II Spanish version and the Barthel Index scale were applied.
Findings
The 68.8% of the participants were females. The most prevailing diagnostic was unspecified COPD 67.2%. As exposition factors several aspects as tobacco use 35.2%, this factor along with the exposition to the biomass smoke were identified at 32.8%. Regarding the health promotion behaviors, there was evidence of a low average in the dimensions related to physical activity and nutrition; a high average in their spiritual growth, in both, men and women. The 92.8% of the sample population were independent regarding basic activities of their daily life. Some statistically meaningful associations were identified in some dimensions of the health-promoting lifestyle Profile II with: age groups, supplementary oxygen use and biomass smoke exposition.
Conclusion
At the end of this study, there was indication of unhealthy behaviors in a population who still presented a good level of physical independence despite their clinical diagnosis and the predominant of exposition factors. The analysis of other factors, which predict health promotion behaviors, is imperative.
Keywords : Lifestyle; Healthy behaviors; Functional dependence; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).