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Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP ISSN: 0080-6234 reeusp@usp.br Universidade de São Paulo Brasil dos Santos Castro Padilha, José Miguel; dos Santos Oliveira, Manuel Fernando; Alves Campos, Maria Joana Revisão integrativa da literatura sobre gestão do regime terapêutico em pacientes com doença pulmonar obstrutiva crônica Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP, vol. 44, núm. 4, diciembre, 2010, pp. 1129-1134 Universidade de São Paulo São Paulo, Brasil Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=361033306040 How to cite Complete issue More information about this article Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Scientific Information System Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative

Integrative literature review on treatment management in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease REVISÃO INTEGRATIVA DA LITERATURA SOBRE GESTÃO DO REGIME TERAPÊUTICO EM PACIENTES COM DOENÇA PULMONAR OBSTRUTIVA CRÔNICA CRITICAL REVIEW REVISIÓN INTEGRADORA DE LA LITERATURA SOBRE EL MANEJO DEL RÉGIMEN TERAPÉUTICO EN PACIENTES CON ENFERMEDAD PULMONAR OBSTRUCTIVA CRÓNICA José Miguel dos Santos Castro Padilha 1, Manuel Fernando dos Santos Oliveira 2, Maria Joana Alves Campos 3 ABSTRACT The objective of this study is to identify which is the best nursing intervention strategy to promote treatment management in patients with Obstructive Chronic Pulmonary Disease in the hospital setting. An integrative literature review was performed for the years 2006 to 2009. The data analysis revealed that the studies used different elements and specific effectiveness indicators to evaluate the intervention strategies that were addressed. Based on current evidence, it is not possible to identify the best strategy. The present review points out the need to define more consensual outcome indicators to evaluate the effectiveness of intervention strategies. Hence, it is necessary to develop, implement, and evaluate the effectiveness of nursing intervention strategies, turning to those indicators, to define the best evidenced-based intervention strategy. KEY WORDS Nursing care. Pulmonary disease, chronic obstructive. Effectiveness. Evidence-based nursing. RESUMO Com este estudo pretende-se identificar qual a melhor estratégia de intervenção de enfermagem na promoção da gestão do regime terapêutico em pacientes com Doença Pulmonar Obstrutiva Crônica no ambiente hospitalar. Realizamos uma revisão integrativa da literatura dos anos 2006 a 2009. A partir da análise dos dados, constatamos que os estudos utilizam diferentes elementos e diferentes indicadores de efetividade para avaliarem as estratégias de intervenção utilizadas. Baseando-se nas evidências disponíveis, não é possível identificar qual a melhor estratégia. Desta revisão emerge a definição dos indicadores de resultado mais consensuais na avaliação da efetividade das estratégias de intervenção. Torna-se agora necessário desenvolver, implementar e avaliar a efetividade das estratégias de intervenção de enfermagem, recorrendo a estes indicadores, para definir qual a melhor estratégia de intervenção, baseada na evidência. DESCRITORES Cuidados de enfermagem. Doença pulmonar obstrutiva crônica. Efetividade. Enfermagem baseada em evidências. RESUMEN Con este estudio, pretendemos identificar cuál es la mejor estrategia de intervención de enfermería en la promoción del manejo del régimen terapéutico en pacientes con Enfermedad Pulmonar Obstructiva Crónica, en el ambiente hospitalario. Realizamos una revisión integradora de la literatura de los años 2006 a 2009. A partir del análisis de los datos, constatamos que los estudios utilizan diferentes elementos y diferentes indicadores de efectividad para evaluar las estrategias de intervención utilizadas, no siendo posible identificar cuál es la mejor estrategia basada en la evidencia disponible. De esta revisión surge la definición de los indicadores de resultado más consensuales en la evaluación de la efectividad de las estrategias de intervención. Se vuelve ahora necesario desarrollar, implementar y evaluar la efectividad de las estrategias de intervención de enfermería, recurriendo a tales indicadores, para definir cuál es la mejor estrategia basada en la evidencia. DESCRIPTORES Atención de enfermería. Enfermedad pulmonar obstructiva crónica. Efectividad. Enfermería basada en la evidencia. 1 Master in Nursing Sciences. Doctorate Student in Nursing. Associate Professor at Escola Superior de Enfermagem do Porto. Porto, Portugal. miguelpadilha@esenf.pt 2 Master in Philosophy. Doctorate Student in Nursing. Associate Professor at Escola Superior de Enfermagem do Porto. Porto, Portugal. fernando@esenf.pt 3 Master in Nursing. Doctorate Student in Nursing. Associate Professor at Escola Superior de Enfermagem do Porto. Porto, Portugal. joana@esenf.pt Integrative literature Portuguese review on treatment / English: management in patients with chronic www.scielo.br/reeusp obstructive pulmonary disease Received: 10/16/2009 Approved: 03/22/2010 www.ee.usp.br/reeusp/ 1123

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this literature review is to identify the best nursing intervention for promoting self care management of patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease () in a hospital setting. The present review is founded on the need to apply the best available evidence to clinical practice (1). The population of aged individuals has been increasing, and there has been a rise in the prevalence of chronic diseases, thus creating new challenges for health systems. The current economical setting, associated to an increased search for health care makes taking on strategic strategies essential in order to guarantee the continuity, quality, and cost-effectiveness of health care. Self care management of complex therapeutic regimens appear, in the health area, as a multidisciplinary and multiprofessional response to the referred situations to capacitate patients to self-control of their health condition. The lack of cognitive and instrumental competencies has a negative effect on the patients capacity to adapt to their health condition and implement behaviors that would likely help reduce symptoms or change/maintain their health state. This issue becomes even more evident when addressing patients receiving complex therapeutic regimens. The is a chronic and progressive disease. Patients with are submitted to complex therapeutic regimens. is characterized by an air flow limitation that is not entirely reversible. That air flow limitation is usually progressive and associated with an abnormal inflammatory response of the lungs to harmful particles or gases. In addition, it may assume different levels of severity (2). The concept of complex therapeutic regimens refers to a therapeutic regime that uses multiple pharmacological and non-pharmacological strategies at the same time. In complex treatments, polymedication is emphasized, using several drugs, with a high number of daily doses, different times, needs to make dose adjustments due to the values resulting from self-surveillance, the use of different means of administration (oral, inhalation), simultaneously, or using non-pharmacological strategies, such as changing eating, exercise, and self-surveillance behaviors (3-4). An efficient self care management of complex therapeutic regimens in would imply to acquire cognitive and instrumental competencies that allow for the treatment to be skillfully included in the patient s everyday life. Hence, the treatment would promote the patients adaptation to their new health condition, helping them with the self-control of the disease and improving their quality of life. Therefore, the following investigation problem emerged: What is the best nursing intervention strategy to promote self care management of complex therapeutic regimens in in a hospital setting? METHOD Articles were selected for the integrative literature review (5) according to the following established inclusion and exclusion criteria (Chart 1). Chart 1 - Inclusion and exclusion criteria for the integrative literature review, using online databases, between 2006 and 2009 Selection criteria Inclusion criteria Exclusion criteria Participants asthma; Family caregivers Intervention Nursing intervention in a hospital setting Extra-hospital nursing interventions Results All the obtained results Type of study Randomized clinical trials, quasi-experimental studies, systematic literature reviews or meta-analysis studies Any other type of study Research strategy Considering the referred problem as the guideline, a literature review was performed between March and May 2009. English/Spanish/Portuguese were the preferred idioms. The literature review was initiated on the following databases: Data_bases of abstracts of reviews of effects (DARE); Cochrane of systematic reviews (CDSR); National Institute of Health and clinical Excellence (NICE). Next, research was performed on electronic databases: CINAHL Plus with Full Text; MEDLINE with Full Text; MedicLatina; SportDiscus with full text; Psychology and behavioral Sciences collection; ISI Web of Knowledge, limiting the review to the years 2006-2009. Only full-text articles were included. Keywords in line with the theme were chosen for the present review (Chart 2). 1124 www.ee.usp.br/reeusp/

Chart 2 - Keywords used in the integrative literature review performed on the online databases, between 2006 and 2009 Keyword 1 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Keyword 2 Nursing intervention program Keyword 3 (optional field) Chronic Obstructive pulmonary disease Nursing intervention Not asthma Patient education Not rehabilitation Self management Educate patient Programe intervention Action plan RESULTS Using the referred research strategy, a total 392 articles were found in the different databases, 12 of which were repeated, 262 were rejected based on their titles, as they were not performed within the hospital setting, or were related with other disciplines. Of the remaining articles, 68 were rejected after reading their abstracts and 42 articles were rejected after reading the full text. These articles were rejected because they were not classified as randomized clinical trials, quasi-experimental studies, systematic literature reviews or meta-analysis studies. In summary, eight articles were included in the present literature review (Chart 3): two primary articles, and six literature reviews. Chart 3 - Articles found for the integrative literature review, on the on-line databases between 2006 and 2009 Consulted databases Data_bases of abstracts of reviews of effects ( DARE); Cochrane of systematic reviews ( CDSR); National Institute of Health and clinical Excellence ( NICE); CINAHL Plus with Full Text; MEDLINE with Full Text; MedicLatina; SportDiscus with full text; Psychology and behavioral Sciences collection; ISI Web of Knowledge Articles Total full-text articles found:392 Total repeated articles:12 Total articles rejected based on the title: 262 Total articles rejected after reading the abstract: 68 Total articles rejected after reading the full-text: 42 Total articles included for the literature review: 8 Chart 4 lists the articles selected for the present literature review, specifying the information regarding the authors, year of publication, source, country, study participants, intervention/study objective and the methodological approach(es) used by the respective authors. Chart 4 - Articles selected for the integrative literature review, on online databases, between 2006 and 2009 Author, Year, Publication, Source, Country. Participants/ sample Intervention Methodology Main Results (6) Bridevaux et al; (2008), American Journal of Medicine, Vol 121, nº 5, pp.433-444. USA Patients with To assess the nursing interventions for disease management based on patients education with: -2 or more specific components; -2 or more health professionals involved; review based on 13 management programs promote moderate improvements on: the capacity for exercise; healthrelated quality of life; hospital admissions. Does not have any effect on mortality causes. Coster & Norman (7) (2009), International Journal of Nursing Studies, 46, pp. 508-52.UK Patients with Education and nursing interventions designed to promote disease management. review based on 31 There is insufficient evidence about the effectiveness of the reviewed interventions. The components of successful interventions in this domain are still to be defined. (8) Adams et al (2007), Arch Intern Med/vol 167, pp. 551-565.USA Patients with Chronic care model (CCM) interventions (treatment management/available health system/ Decision support/ Clinical information) review based on 32 who received interventions comprising to or more CCM components have reduced hospital admissions, fewer visits to the emergency room, and shorter length of stay. Continue... www.ee.usp.br/reeusp/ 1125

...Continuation Author, Year, Publication, Source, Country. (9) Lu Chi-Chi et al (2007), J. Nursing Research, Vol. 15, pp.89-97.taiwan. (10) Bourbeau et al. (2006), Chest, Vol. 130, pp. 1704-1711. USA Kaptein Ad. et al. (11) (2008), Journal Of Asthma, Vol. 45, p. 625-629. USA. (12) Effing T. et al (2009), Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Issue 4. Art. No.: CD002990. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD00 2990.pub2. UK. Turnock AC. et al. (13) (2009), Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Issue 4. Art. No.: CD005074. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD00 5074.pub2. UK. Participants/ sample (n=50) (n=191) Intervention Methodology Main Results Case management program and its effects on: the length of stay; health care costs; knowledge about the disease; satisfaction towards heath care. Economic analysis of an education program for selfmanagement in, with the supervision of a case manager. Study of the perception of the disease and its effect on patient outcome. To evaluate the definitions, methods and effectiveness of educational programs for selfmanagement, about health, and about using health services. To evaluate the efficacy of action plans on the management of Quasi-experimental study Quantitative study (multicenter RCT) review based on 16 qualitative studies. review based on 14 review based on 3 There are no significant differences regarding: the length of stay; health care costs. There were improvements in: the knowledge about the disease; satisfaction towards health care. The costs of patients subject to the program exceeded the costs of patients of the standard-care group; however, if the number of patients per case manager was increased from 14 to 50 per year, the intervention would be more costeffective than standard care. Discussing about and changing the perception of the disease improves quality of life and reduces the dependence level. Reduction of at least one readmission in one year and reduction in the measurement of dyspnea. No differences were found in the number of: aggravations; visits to the emergency room; respiratory function; capacity for exercise; days away from work. Results are inconclusive for: the use of antibiotics; corticoids; emergency There is evidence of positive results for: the knowledge about selfmanagement (recognizing aggravations); action on aggravations; starting antibiotics and steroids. There is no evidence of positive results for: health care use; quality of life; respiratory function; functional capacity; mortality; anxiety; depression. DISCUSSION The articles, which comprised the inclusion criteria in this integrative literature review, revealed that the nursing intervention strategies in a hospital setting differ in terms of the specific elements composing them, and, due to insufficient evidence, the results do not permit to choose one particular strategy. The diverse strategies are comprised by specific elements and use different indicators to evaluate effectiveness. Nonetheless, the present literature review revealed the outcome indicators most used by the various authors, and from them, it was possible to define the most consensual in terms of their sensitivity to evaluate the effectiveness of intervention strategies. These outcome indicators may consist of guides for defining the analyzed intervention strategies. The outcome results used to analyze the effectiveness of nursing intervention strategies in the present review are: quality of life; capacity for exercise; hospital admissions; 1126 www.ee.usp.br/reeusp/ visits to the emergency room; length of stay; health care cost; aggravations; the use of antibiotics/corticoids and emergency medication; knowledge; satisfaction towards health care; anxiety; depression and mortality. To discuss on the results, we divided the outcome indicators according to the criteria of consensus among authors, regarding its effectiveness in evaluating strategies that promote treatment management. Hence, two indicator categories were created: indicators that were consensually sensitive and those without consensus about their sensitivity to evaluate strategy effectiveness. We first analyzed the indicators that had no consensus regarding their sensitivity for evaluating the effectiveness of strategies promoting treatment management: A) Quality of life is an outcome used in different studies (6,11,13), but there is no consensus among those studies. While some studies report that quality of life is moderately affected by intervention programs (6), others claim that programs that

increase the perception about the disease have a positive effect on quality of life (11). Furthermore, some authors report that there is not enough evidence about the effects of intervention programs on quality of life (13). Hence, it was found that quality of life (alone) is an indicator of an outcome with little consensus in terms of its sensitivity. B) The capacity for exercise, as an outcome, was addressed in various studies (6,12-13), with no consensus among the authors, as some affirm that there is modest evidence of improvements to this outcome (6), while others report there are no significant differences between the subjects for this specific outcome (12-13). Thus, it was observed that the capacity for exercise, as well, is not an indicator of a consensually sensitive outcome. C) The number of visits to the emergency room is also used as an outcome (8,12). Although authors differ in their conclusions, some refer that, among their subjects, the number of visits to the emergency room were reduced (8), while others report there were no differences in this regard (12). It was, thus, verified that the number of visits to the emergency room also cannot be considered a consensual outcome indicator. D) The costs of health care are also referred to as outcomes (9,10) There authors disagree about the presented results; some refer that a positive economical result only exists if there is a minimum rate of 50 patients per case manager per year (10), whereas others claim that using the model does not make any significant changes on the costs (9). Thus, it is verified that to use this outcome indicator there is a need for a greater specification of the elements composing it as well as about its association with other indicators. E) Anxiety and depression are also used as outcomes, though authors state there is no evidence regarding the effect of intervention programs on these outcomes (13). Mortality is also used as an outcome by various authors, though there is greater agreement among them in stating that there is no evidence about the influence of intervention programs on mortality (6,13). Anxiety, depression and mortality should not be used as outcome indicators in evaluations of nursing intervention strategies implemented in a hospital setting, in this context. F) Length of stay is used as an outcome by various authors, though they differ in the study results (8,9) ; some report that the length of stay is reduced among patients subjected to more than two interventions of the studied model (8), while others state there is no significant difference in the results when associated to a case manager (9). Therefore, it was observed that the length of stay also cannot be considered a consensually sensitive outcome indicator. G) Various authors also refer to disease aggravations as an outcome (12-13). Some authors report there is no evidence for the change in the number of disease aggravations in their sample (12), while others state there is positive evidence about recognizing and acting upon aggravations (13). Hence, the capacity to identify a disease aggravation and acting upon that situation are not consensual indicators to evaluate the effectiveness of the analyzed strategies. H) The use of antibiotics/corticoids and emergency medication are also used as outcomes (12-13). Some authors report that their study results are inconclusive (12), while others claim there is evidence of positive results when initiating the use of antibiotics and corticoids (13). The client s capacity to initiate the use of antibiotics and corticoids in view of an aggravation is also a non-consensual outcome indicator. The following are indicators consensual in terms of their sensitivity for evaluating the effectiveness of strategies promoting treatment management: A) Hospital admissions/readmissions are used as outcomes, as there is consensus among authors in saying that intervention programs produce positive outcomes (6,8,12). Hence, hospital admissions/readmissions may be referred to as a sensitive indicator to evaluate the effectiveness of the analyzed strategies. B) Patients knowledge is also used as an outcome. Authors who use this outcome agree in stating that they obtain positive results (9,13). Patients knowledge is a consensually sensitive outcome indicator that permits to evaluate the effectiveness of the analyzed strategies. C) Satisfaction towards the received care is used as an outcome and authors report there are better results among patients submitted to an intervention program (9). Satisfaction towards the received care may be a sensible indicator to evaluate the effectiveness of the analyzed strategies, though stronger evidence is needed for a better assessment. CONCLUSION It should be emphasized that it is not possible, based on the present integrative literature review, to define which is the best strategy to promote self care management of complex therapeutic regimens in patients with in a hospital setting, due to the insufficient evidence to support that decision. The present review permits to define the consensual outcome indicators regarding their effectiveness to evaluate the strategies to promote self care management of complex therapeutic regimens in patients with in a hospital setting: hospital admissions/readmissions; patients knowledge and their satisfaction towards the received care. This form of data analysis, which produces the indicators of effectiveness with greatest agreement among authors, justified the present integrative literature review, adding to the current evidence the possibility of comparing the effectiveness of nursing interventions in promoting treatment management. The present integrative literature review revealed there is a need to identify the elements that should comprise www.ee.usp.br/reeusp/ 1127

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