The Relationship Between Self-Efficacy And Self-Care Activity On The Quality Of Life In Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients

Currently, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is one of the main causes of increasing morbidity and mortality throughout the world. COPD is a disease that lasts a long time and is progressive and difficult to cure completely, so it has a bad impact on the quality of life. Therefore, efforts are needed to increase maximum therapeutic management in managing the disease, one of which is self management such as increasing self-efficacy and self-care activity. This research aimed to determine the relationship between self efficacy and self-care activity on the quality of life in COPD patients. The method used in this research was cross-sectional involving 150 participants who had been diagnosed with COPD. This research used the SCES (COPD Self Efficacy Scale), SGRQ (ST.George's Respiratory Questionnaire), and WHOQOL-BREF (World Health Organization Quality Of Life-Bref) questionnaires. The statistical analysis was carried out using the Chi-Square test. The results of this research showed that the majority of COPD patients at the Labuang Baji Regional Public Hospital of Makassar had low self-efficacy and self-care activity, which caused the quality of life of these COPD patients to be poor or bad. Therefore, it can be concluded that there is a relationship between self-efficacy and self-care activity on the quality of life in COPD patients, with a significance value of p<0.05.