Keywords
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Self-management
Pulmonary rehabilitation
Review
Submitted : 2025-08-06
Accepted : 2025-08-21
Published : 2025-09-05
Abstract
Self-management interventions for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients using mobile health technology are beneficial for relieving disease symptoms, improving patients’ adherence to rehabilitation self-management, and improving quality of life. This paper reviews the application of mobile health technology in self-management of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, introduces the application form of mobile health technology in self-management of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, summarizes its application effect in self-management of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, analyzes the problems and proposes solutions in the process of research and implementation at this stage, with a view to providing a theory for the application of mobile health technology in pulmonary rehabilitation and management of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease This study summarize the effect of its application in the self-management of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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