Decision-making Experiences of Home-based Lung Rehabilitation Behaviors in Patients with Lung Transplant:A Qualitative Study
Objective To explore the experiences of decision-making of home-based pulmonary rehabilita-tion self-management behaviors in lung transplant patients.Methods The purposive sampling method was used to conduct semi-structured interviews with 16 lung transplant patients who attended follow-up visits in a tertiary A hospital.Data were analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis.Results A total of 3 themes including 7 subthemes were identified,namely attitudes(physical and mental perceptions influ-encing decision-making attitudes),subject norms(social factors drive decision-making beliefs)and per-ceived behavior control(self-perception shaping decision-making intentions).Conclusions Home-based health management for lung transplant patients can be improved by strengthening the positive feedback of the psychological experience of behavioral decision-making,improving the mechanism of patients'active participation in decision-making under the social support network,and exploring the construction of a com-munity support model for home health management of lung transplant patients,thereby to improve their self-management behavior in home-based pulmonary rehabilitation.