Pinto 2014.

Study characteristics
Country / Income of the Country	Brazil (LMIC)
Objective of study	Quote: "Explores the illness experiences, the efficacy of pulmonary rehabilitation as perceived by patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease "COPD" and their rational  for improvements in health"
participant´s description	Twenty‐three patients with COPD
Health condition	Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Mode of rehabilitation delivery	In‐person home‐based rehabilitation
Type of rehabilitation provided	Respiratory
Study design / Data collection approach / Data analysis approach	Qualitative approach/ Semi‐structured interviews/ Content analysis and semantic interpretation
Funding sources for the study / Conflict of interest	Quote: ''Financial support was provided by the University of Salamanca, the Ministry  of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (J. M. S. Pinto) and  CNPq (productivity in science grant #307346/2011‐0 – M. Nations)''   Quote: "No information on conflict provided"
Notes	Study purposively sampled