title: Promoting regular physical activity in pulmonary rehabilitation.
abstract: Patients with chronic respiratory diseases are usually physically inactive, which is an important negative prognostic factor. Therefore, promoting regular physical activity is of key importance in reducing morbidity and mortality and improving the quality of life in this population. A current challenge to pulmonary rehabilitation is the need to develop strategies that induce or facilitate the enhancement of daily levels of physical activity. Because exercise training alone, despite improving exercise capacity, does not consistently generate similar improvements in physical activity in daily life, there is also a need to develop behavioral interventions that help to promote activity.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Doctor Aiguader 88, Barcelona 08003, Spain. Electronic address: jgarcia@creal.cat.
authors.forename: Judith
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Garcia-Aymerich
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Research in Respiratory Physiotherapy (LFIP), Departamento de Fisioterapia, Av. Robert Koch, 60, Londrina 86038-350, Brazil.
authors.forename: Fabio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Pitta
mesh_terms: D015444:Exercise; D005081:Exercise Therapy; D017079:Exercise Tolerance; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / Q000534:rehabilitation*
keywords: Behavior change; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Exercise; Physical activity; Pulmonary rehabilitation