Adherencia a la rehabilitación pulmonar en pacientes con enfermedad pulmonar instersticial difusa (EPID)

Abstract

IntroductionDiffuse interstitial lung disease (DILD), despite its low prevalence, has a progressive and lethal course. As a secondary strategy to pharmacological treatment, patients are referred to pulmonary rehabilitation programs; however, there is little evidence regarding adherence to these programs. ObjectiveTo analyze the adherence of patients diagnosed with ILD to pulmonary rehabilitation programs in a clinic in Colombia in the year 2021. Materials and methodsObservational and prospective descriptive study where 74 patients with ILD were linked, who were divided into two groups, low/moderate adherence and high adherence, taking as reference the compliance model of Oates et al. For the comparison of the two groups, the chi2 test and the T student test for independent samples were performed. A significance of 95% was taken into account, and significant p-values<0.05 were considered. ResultsHigh adherence was obtained in 67.6% of the patients included in the study. In the clinical variables, diagnoses, hospitalizations, days hospitalized, and in the symptoms domain of the quality of life questionnaire, there were significant differences with a p-value≤0.05 between the adherence groups. The reason for abandonment of the pulmonary rehabilitation program in the majority of patients was due to exacerbation and not having money for transportation. ConclusionsHigh adherence was present in 67.6% of the participants. Patients with high adherence had a higher prevalence of classified ILD, hospitalizations, distance traveled and better quality of life.