A study to assess the effectiveness of Deep Breathing Exercise among Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients who are aged between 50-60 years in selected hospital at Dindigul District

The objective of the study were, to assess the breathing pattern before and after breathing exercise among chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients in control and experimental group. To evaluate the effectiveness of deep breathing exercise among chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients in experimental group. To find out the association between the breathing pattern with selected demographic variables in the control and experimental group. 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 government headquarter hospital at Dindigul district 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 analyze 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 With regard to age, 9(30%) in experimental group and 10(33.3%) in control group belongs to the age group of 51 to 60 years and 9(30%) in experimental group and 9(30%) in control group belonged to the age group of above 60 years. Considering the sex, 17 (56.6%) subjects in the experimental group and 14 (46.6%) in the control group were females and the remaining were males. In relation to education, 9(30%) of them had high secondary school and 7(23.3%) of them had illiterate in experimental group and 7(23.3%) of them had high school education and 9(30%) of them had higher secondary education in control group. With regard to the occupation, 9(30%) were self workers and 9(30%) were industrial workers in experimental group and 9(30%) were self workers and 8(26.7%) were industrial workers in the control group. In relation to marital status 22(73.3%)were married and6(20%)unmarried in experimental group and 15(50%)were married and 6(20%) un married in control group. Regarding the history of previous copd, 18 (60%) in experimental group and 24 (80%) in control group had no history of previous copd. Considering the duration of illness, 10 (33.3%) subjects having 6 years in and 10 (33.3%) subject having 2-5years in experimental group and 12 (40%) subject having 6 years and 9 (30%) subject having in control. With regard to the treatment of copd, 16 (53.3%) subjects in the experimental group and 16 (53.3%) of subjects in the control group. Findings of the pre test level of breathing pattern in control group on 2 subjects (6.7%) had moderate level of breathing difficulty and 5 subjects (16.7%) had severe level of breathing difficulty . And the post test level of breathing difficulty in control group, 2 subjects (6.7%) had somewhat severe level of breathing difficulty and10subjects (33.3%) had slight level of breath difficulty. Whereas in experimental group, the pre test level of breathing pattern 11 subjects (36.7%) had maximum level of breathing difficulty and 2 subjects (6.7%) had moderate level of breathing difficulty and the post test level of breathing difficulty, 12 subjects (40%) had very slight level of breath difficulty, and 10 (33.3%) had slight breathing difficulty, level of breathing in the experimental group. The calculated ‘t’ values in the control group were 2.07 which 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 patients. The 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