Table 2.

Motives of patients to include or not to include family members in the partnership-based self-management research for patients with COPD in its initial stages.

Includea		Not includea
Help patient	27 (15)	Did not want to have anybody	74 (57)
Help family member	16 (9)	Did not have one	4 (3)
Know more about disease	35 (19)	No one had time	21 (16)
Contribute to science	22 (12)	No one willing to	1 ( 1)
Total	100 (55)	Total	100 (77)

COPD: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

^aPatients could mark more than one item.