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Amy
Blakemore
amy.blakemore@manchester.ac.uk
Amy
Blakemore
amy.blakemore@manchester.ac.uk
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Chronic lower respiratory diseases
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Background
South Asians are the largest ethnic minority group in the United Kingdom (UK). About 1.3% of South Asians in the UK live with a long-term lung condition called Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). There is no cure for COPD, but symptoms can be managed using Pulmonary Rehabilitation (PR), which is a group programme consisting of education about COPD, supervised exercise, and behaviour change.
Increasing equality in access, uptake, and engagement with PR is a national priority. However, we know that South Asian people are still less likely to be offered the chance to attend PR when compared to White British people, and those who do attend are less likely to complete the programme.
What do we want to achieve?
We aim to understand why South Asian people living with COPD are less likely to be referred, attend, and complete PR. We will work together with South Asian people with COPD to develop a tailored PR programme that will suit their needs.
How will we achieve this?
Over 12 months we will interview South Asian people living with COPD to understand any barriers they currently face in attending PR and think with them about what could be done differently to overcome these barriers. We will hold focus groups with healthcare professionals and key informants too.
Then we will work with patients, professionals, and key informants at a one-day consensus event to agree a template for a PR programme, guidelines for referrers, and accompanying plan for community engagement, that has potential to increase PR access, engagement, and completion for South Asian people.
We will recruit people to take part in this research from NHS PR services, primary care, community organisations, and using social media.
Who is funnding this research?
This project is funded by the National Institute for Health Research, Research for Patient Benefit Programme (RfPB).
Start dates may differ between countries and research sites. The research team are responsible for keeping the information up-to-date.
The recruitment start and end dates are as follows:
Observational type: Qualitative;
You can take part if:
You may not be able to take part if:
South Asian people living with COPD will not be eligible to take part if they do not meet the eligibility criteria for pulmonary rehabilitation as outlined above. Health care professionals and key informants who do not have a role or specific interest in the commissioning, delivery, evaluation of pulmonary rehabilitation.
Below are the locations for where you can take part in the trial. Please note that not all sites may be open.
Amy
Blakemore
amy.blakemore@manchester.ac.uk
Amy
Blakemore
amy.blakemore@manchester.ac.uk
More information about this study, what is involved and how to take part can be found on the study website.
The study is sponsored by University of Manchester and funded by NIHR Central Commissioning Facility (CCF) .
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