Authors
Tanja W Effing, Jan H Vercoulen, Jean Bourbeau, Jaap Trappenburg, Anke Lenferink, Paul Cafarella, David Coultas, Paula Meek, Paul Van Der Valk, Erik WMA Bischoff, Christine Bucknall, Naresh A Dewan, Frances Early, Vincent Fan, Peter Frith, Daisy JA Janssen, Katy Mitchell, Mike Morgan, Linda Nici, Irem Patel, Haydn Walters, Kathryn L Rice, Sally Singh, Richard Zuwallack, Roberto Benzo, Roger Goldstein, Martyn R Partridge, Job Van Der Palen
Publication date
2016/7/1
Journal
European Respiratory Journal
Volume
48
Issue
1
Pages
46-54
Publisher
European Respiratory Society
Description
There is an urgent need for consensus on what defines a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) self-management intervention. We aimed to obtain consensus regarding the conceptual definition of a COPD self-management intervention by engaging an international panel of COPD self-management experts using Delphi technique features and an additional group meeting.
In each consensus round the experts were asked to provide feedback on the proposed definition and to score their level of agreement (1=totally disagree; 5=totally agree). The information provided was used to modify the definition for the next consensus round. Thematic analysis was used for free text responses and descriptive statistics were used for agreement scores.
In total, 28 experts participated. The consensus round response rate varied randomly over the five rounds (ranging from 48% (n=13) to 85% (n=23)), and mean definition …
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