Efectos de la rehabilitación pulmonar en pacientes con EPOC según la clasificación GOLD 2020 en Cali, Colombia

Abstract

Introduction

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease has a guide in charge of prevention and treatment, called the Global Initiative for Chronic Lung Disease, which is annually updated and catalogs pulmonary rehabilitation, within the treatment options.

Objective

To describe the effects on clinical variables, functional capacity, anxiety/depression and health-related quality of life in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, after a pulmonary rehabilitation program, according to the GOLD 2020 classification in a Cali clinic.

Materials and methods

Descriptive, longitudinal study where 79 patients divided into 3 groups were included (B, C and D).

Results

The mean age was 70 years, 69% men. The number of hospitalized days was greater for groups C and D with an average of 8 and 13 days, respectively (p ≤ 0.000). The functional capacity showed a greater distance in group C (421 m) and the shortest distance for group D (328 m), p ≤ 0.006. In anxiety and depression, group D managed to obtain improvements as well as in the quality of life questionnaire.

Conclusion

Group C presented greater functional capacity and better quality of life, group B had better results in clinical variables, and group D had worse clinical condition, functional capacity and quality of life. At the end of pulmonary rehabilitation, group D presented greater changes in functional capacity and quality of life.