How do patients with Bronchiectasis perceive exercise?
Research type
Research Study
Full title
How do patients with Bronchiectasis perceive exercise? A qualitative study.
IRAS ID
235915
Contact name
Carol Kelly
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Edge Hill University
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 10 months, 31 days
Research summary
Bronchiectasis is a chronic respiratory condition that is thought to have various causes, including repeated chest infections, genetics, and immune system disorders. Patients with bronchiectasis have symptoms including breathlessness and sputum production. Complications from this disease include reduced quality of life, repeated hospital admissions and a lower life expectancy. It is thought that 5 in 1,000 adults in the UK have bronchiectasis.
There is research showing that these patients have a more sedentary lifestyle than the general population. Exercise is thought to be particularly important for patients with a range of respiratory conditions. It is recommended in the management of this patient group, and benefits include helping patients cough up sputum and helping them maintain a better level of physical function. There is no evidence to date identifying potential reasons why patients in this group often do not engage in the recommended exercise, and without knowing this it is difficult to implement measures to increase activity levels. Therefore, this study aims to identify potential barriers to exercise by answering the question‘How do patients with Bronchiectasis perceive exercise?’.
This qualitative study involves one to one semi-structured interviews to gather bronchiectasis patients' views of exercise. 10-15 adult bronchiectasis patients will be recruited from a respiratory clinic in a large north west hospital. They will be given more than 24 hours to consider participation, and further information will be given if required. Written consent will be taken from those wanting to participate and then the interviews will take place with the researcher, taking maximum 1 hour. These interviews will be audio recorded. The semi structured interview will follow several points (See attached interview guide) around the topic of exercise/activity. Data will be anonymised on transcription after one week of recording, and thematic analysis will be used to identify key themes between the interviews.
REC name
London - London Bridge Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
18/LO/0600
Date of REC Opinion
11 Apr 2018
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion