Table 2.
Specific Coping Strategies Adopted During Pandemic Times by COPD People, Caregivers and Health Care Professionals
| Activities considered enjoyable or hobbies | COPD People (5, 21.7%) | ≪ … I feel good by myself because I always find something to do, read, inform myself, play with the pc or learn new things of every kind ≫ (Participant with COPD, PZ03) |
| Caregivers | --- | |
| HCPs | --- | |
| The hope of finding loved ones | COPD People (3, 13.04%) | ≪ … I had to stay calm and reason because I have three grandchildren and an only daughter living in the USA and I want to see them again … ≫ (Participant with COPD, PZ51) |
| Caregivers | --- | |
| HCPs | --- | |
| Positive thinking or humor | COPD People (2, 8.7%) | ≪ … That I am fortunate to be able to live with family and be so well cared for … ≫ (Participant with COPD, PZ52) |
| Caregivers (24, 58.3%) | ≪For tomorrow I guess ….I want to be positive and think that this pandemic can go away the way it came≫ (Caregiver, F43) | |
| HCPs (13, 27.7%) | ≪ Softly, more and more consistently the fact that COVID had come to my neck of the woods had taken hold. Like the inscriptions on cigarette packets … cigarette smoke can give you cancer. The smoker thinks that it can come to someone else, but never to him. But then some friend or family member gets seriously ill and changes their mind. Suddenly with the fact that you could be identified as a panic doctor, because in February you were guilty of making the nurses wear masks as a precaution, it became a matter of conditional admissions ….We suddenly became “ghostbusters” … all wearing masks, goggles, gloves, disposable suits, even to carry the car!!!!! Personalized guidelines, which changed almost weekly, … equally changing according to what they divulged virologists interviewed daily by various television programs …. … … ≫ (HCP, PS29) | |
| Protection of self and of the other | COPD People (6, 2%) | ≪I honestly stayed at home≫ (Participant with COPD, PZ05) |
| Caregivers (10, 33.04%) | ≪I think that even if the disease is subtle, staying at home and respecting the rules and avoiding crowded schedules for shopping or weekends I do not say that we live it differently but in a serene and quiet way even if we continue to hear these things on TV but sometimes, we change the channel, we prefer to see futile things rather than the news, we avoid so we are better, so much so if we respect the rules nothing serious should happen≫ (Caregiver, F55) | |
| HCPs (6, 12.8%) | ≪ … I felt that the health of my family members was very much at risk and I kept them at a distance … ≫ (HCP, PS76) | |
| Organization and problem solving | COPD People | --- |
| Caregivers (1, 4%) | ≪Getting out of the house was just me taking care of the expenses and going to work≫ (Caregiver, F55) | |
| HCPs (14, 29.8%) | ≪ The virus and lockdown have arrived. At this stage, work patterns were disrupted. However, I have tried to maintain that relationship of proximity with the patients. Through phone calls, messages, video calls. I always left the office open at the usual times (albeit with security rules) and visited suspects in the office (at separate times) or at home. always leaving the study open with the usual timetables (also with safety rules), visiting in study (in separate timetables) or to house the suspects covid, leaving availability to be contacted also to the Saturday and to the Sunday≫ (HCP, 78) | |
| Self-care | COPD People (4, 17.4%) | ≪I kept myself always trained on the treadmill, every day including Saturday and Sunday, I never gave up maybe that’s why all in all I managed to overcome him … ≫ (Participant with COPD, PZ77) |
| Caregivers | --- | |
| HCPs | --- | |
| Adjusting expectations | COPD People (2, 8.4%) | ≪ … to continue to be quite well in the hope that more and more effective medications against COPD will be found ….≫ (Participant with COPD, PZ56) |
| Caregivers (1, 4%) | ≪I think … that we must take advantage of this moment so that my wife can regain her breath in the true sense of the word … ≫ (Caregiver, F89) | |
| HCPs | --- | |
| Spirituality | COPD People (1, 4.3%) | ≪I also began to pray … ≫ (Participant with COPD, PZ15) |
| Caregivers | --- | |
| HCPs | --- |