Introduction:

The Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a highly prevalent disease, characterized mainly by dyspnea, which has an impact on the quality of life of the person. The program of comprehensive respiratory care offers an essentially educational, individualized and multidisciplinary intervention focused on the needs of the patient and its family, seeking to improve the quality of life and associated morbidities.

Objective:

To describe the quality of life in a comprehensive care program for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Methods:

A cross-sectional retrospective descriptive study was carried out, including patients diagnosed with COPD, in whom the Saint George quality of life questionnaire was applied at admission and six months after being linked to the program. Student’s t test was performed for the analysis by normality tests. Results: A total of 31 patients with an average age of 82.7 years were included, 43.3% had a history of smoking, variations in the Saint George survey showed a significant change in the domain of activity and in the overall score when applied to the six-month follow-up.

Conclusions:

The implementation of the comprehensive educational program seems to support the improvement in the quality of life of participants diagnosed with COPD. Future prospective studies may validate this hypothesis.