<p>Association Between Everyday Technology Use, Activities of Daily Living and Health-Related Quality of Life in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease</p>

Abstract

Purpose: A decline in the ability to perform activities of daily living (ADL) and ability to use everyday technology can pose threats to independent living, healthcare management and quality of life (QOL) of patients suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Evidence of the relationship between these variables remains limited. The dual aim of this study was, first, to investigate if health-related QOL (HRQOL) was associated with quality in ADL performance and everyday technology use; second, to examine whether lung function, years with COPD diagnosis, living status or educational level affected physical and mental domains of HRQOL. Methods: This cross-sectional study included (N=80) participants aged 46-87 years recruited at healthcare centres in the Northern Region of Denmark using a convenience sampling procedure. Data were gathered through standardized assessments and analysed using multiple regression analysis. Results: The regression model explained 50.6% (R 2 =0.506) of the variation in HRQOLphysical. The following four variables were statistically significantly associated with HRQOLphysical: years since COPD diagnosis (p=0.023), ability to use everyday technology (p=0.006), amount of relevant everyday technologies (p=0.015) and ADL motor ability (p<0.01). The regression model explained 22.80% (R 2 =0.228) of HRQOLmental. Only the variable ability to use everyday technology was statistically significantly associated with HRQOLmental (p=0.009). Conclusion: Quality of ADL performance and everyday technology use seem to be associated with HRQOL in people living with COPD. The only demographic variable associated with HRQOL was years with COPD. This indicates that healthcare professionals should enhance their attention also to ADL-performance and everyday technology use when striving to increase the HRQOL of persons living with COPD.

Relationships among hope, meaning in life, and post‐traumatic growth in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A cross‐sectional study

“…In addition, researchers have found that sociodemographic variables, such as age at the time of the survey, gender, medical insurance, socioeconomic, and education level, might affect the psychological outcomes of patients (Kaptain et al., 2020; Stellefson et al., 2019). Therefore, such variables are considered to be the potential sources of confusion and their relationships with hope, meaning in life, and PTG are explored.…”

New Insights into Activities of Daily Living Performance in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

“…7 ET is complex to integrate and integration of ET in rehabilitation requires health professionals staying updated and daring to take new challenges; however, focusing on ET makes it possible to support the benefits of digitalization. 7 Since the ability to perform ADL and use ET are associated with health-related quality of life in people living with COPD, 20 it is of critical importance to investigate ADL performance including ET use in order to support the development of interventions that could be integrated in pulmonary rehabilitation.…”

“…1,23 Details of ADL performance are essential in order to be able to address interventions effectively in people living with COPD so as to improve everyday functioning and independence, and thus influence quality of life. 20 Therefore, this study has a twofold aim: 1) to explore observed and self-reported ADL performance, and 2) to investigate the relationship between observation and self-reporting when evaluating ADL performance and between observed/self-reported ADL performance and the ability to use ET in people living with COPD. centres in the Northern Region of Denmark using a convenience sampling procedure.…”

“…The ability to use ET can be improved through targeted interventions such as adapting the environment for the current activity, integrating relevant strategies to compensate for motor limitations and identifying a match between the environment and the user's capabilities. 60 ET use is found to be related with ADL performance and significantly impact on health-related quality of life for people with COPD, 20 hence it should be considered a target for interventions, also included in pulmonary rehabilitation.…”

Evaluation of an interactive showroom to increase general knowledge about welfare technology and its potential in municipal care settings

“…Welfare Technology is described to have potential to free up resources, giving people the opportunity to better manage healthcare needs, reduce costs, and promote research, development, and innovation [15]. There is also incipient evidence that technology-based interventions promotes instrumental activities of daily living [16], health-related quality of life [17], and mental wellbeing among older people [18]. Strong and early WT initiatives on the verge of being implemented widely include GPS alarms, eating robots, hygiene robots, medicine reminders, and supervision/ (non-intruding) surveillance cameras [19].…”