Implementation Strategy of Community Lung Rehabilitation Centered on Peer Education: a Qualitative Study / 中国康复理论与实践

ABSTRACT

Objective:To explore the suggestion and key points of implementing community rehabilitation centered on peer education for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Methods:From June, 2016 to June, 2017, 19 doctors, 15 nurses and 27 patients with COPD were selected for semi-structured interviews with the phenomenological research method, and the data were analyzed using the 7-step analysis method of Colaizzi. Results:The points were as follows establishment and orientation of group leader education, hospital-community-family interaction mode, collective and individual intervention mode and effect and interaction monitoring. Conclusion:There is still lack of unified standards and teaching materials for the application of peer education in the rehabilitation of COPD patients. COPD community rehabilitation implementation strategies with peer education as the core are formulated to provide further reference for the rehabilitation of COPD patients.