Effectiveness of Deep Breathing Exercise among Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease patients at Selected hospitals,Chennai.

Abstract

In this study quasi experimental, non randomized control group pre test-post test design was adopted. The study include 60 samples patients who were selected by purposive sampling technique .the study was conducted in Sathyabama General Hospital, Chennai demographic data ,modified dyspnea Borg scale and intervention for deep breathing exercise these are method used for data collection procedure. the tool was finalized of five medical and nursing experts and pilot study for the its clarity ambiguity and feasibility on similar subject to analyse the experimental data statistical analysis was used Modified Borg scale was used to evaluate the dyspnea. Experimental group received intervention of deep breathing exercise for 25 minutes twice a day for without treatment

The control group the per test scores on the level of breathing pattern very severe were 4(13.3%)had very very severe,8(26.7%) had maximum, 6(20%) had almost maximum12(40%). whereas in post test scores on the level of moderate breathing were 6(20%) had very severe breath,4(13.3%) had very very severe breath, 8(26.7%) had maximum 12(40%)respectively. In experimental group the pre test scores on the level of breathing pattern moderate were 2(6.7%) had somewhat severe,3(10%) had moderate very very severe,5(16.7%) had maximum breathing pattern 9(30%) had almost maximum 11(36.7). whereas in post test scores on the level of very very slight were 12(40%) had slight breath 10(33.3%) had moderate breathing pattern 6(20%)had severe breathing pattern and no one maximum breathing pattern respectively.

The calculated ‘t’ values in the control group were 2.07which are not significant. It is concluded that there was no significant differences between the pre and post test level of breathing pattern among chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patientsThe calculated ’t’ value in the experimental group were 2.64was statistically significant at p<0.05 level which clearly shows that there was a significant reduce in the level of breathing pattern among patients among chronic obstructive pulmonary disease after giving breathing exercise .Hence H1 is accepted.

The obtained ‘t’ values for level of pain between the control and experimental group is 4.51which were highly significant at p<0.05 level. These findings revealed that the subjects in experimental group had decreased level of breathing pattern after giving breathing exercise compared to control group. Hence research hypothesis H2 is accepted