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Table 2 Results of patients’ self-management and health status of complete cases

From: Integrating a tailored e-health self-management application for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients into primary care: a pilot study

Measure

Pre-intervention median (range)

Post-intervention median (range)

Within-person difference median (range)

Smoking

   

cigarettes/day (n = 4)

20.0 (10.0 to 40.0)

15.0 (10.0 to 40.0)

−2.5 (0.0 to 5.0)

Physical activity

   

days/week (n = 8)

5.0 (0.0 to 7.0)

5.0 (0.0 to 7.0)

0.0 (−5.0 to 5.0)

SQUASH (minutes/day) (n = 4)

336.0 (54.0 to 564.0)

347.5 (132.0 to 540.0)

−39.0 (−66.0 to 161.0)

Medication adherence

   

Poor/moderate/good (scoring 1 to 3) (n = 8)

3.0 (2.0 to 3.0)

3.0 (2.0 to 3.0)

0.0 (−1.0 to 1.0)

MARS5 (scoring: 0 to 25) (n = 4)

23.5 (23.0 to 24.0)

23.0 (20.0 to 25.0)

−0.5 (−4.0 to 2.0)

Health status

   

FEV1% post-PB (n = 8)

66.2 (45.2 to 73.6)

63.1 (46.3 to 72.4)

0,4 (−7.4 to 4.3)

MRC (scoring: 1 to 5) (n = 5)

1.0 (1.0 to 2.0)

1.0 (1.0 to 1.0)

0.0 (−1.0 to 0.0)

CCQ (scoring: 0 to 6) (n = 4)

1.0 (0.5 to 1.6)

0.8 (0.1 to 2.4)

−0.2 (−0.4 to 0.8)