Attitudes Knowledge of operative lung cancer patients toward pulmonary rehabilitation

Xiaowei Mao¹Fang Hu²Jin Peng³Feng Pan³Jinjin Yan⁴Liyan Jiang^3*

• ¹Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Graduate School, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
• ²Cancer Center, Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou, China
• ³Shanghai Chest Hospital of Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
• ⁴Hebei Petrochina Central Hospital, Langfang, China

Introduction: We conducted this survey to explore the attitudes knowledge of operative lung cancer patients toward pulmonary rehabilitation and the influencing factors. Methods: Between Jan 1st, 2018 and Dec 31th, 2020, patients who received thoracic surgery were enrolled in this study. We used a questionnaire, which consisted of three parts, to collect the clinical features and attitudesknowledge toward pulmonary rehabilitation. Result: Finally, ninety-three patients were enrolled in this study. Most patients are female,≤60 years old, had normal pulmonary function and diagnosed to non-small cell lung cancer. Univariate analysis revealed that patients with abnormal pulmonary ventilatory function, higher preoperative CAT scores, higher CAT differences, and higher mMRC differences showed a higher percentage of awareness of pulmonary rehabilitation (p=0.051, 0.029, 0.178, 0.003 respectively). Multivariate analysis suggested that preoperative CAT score (p=0.01) and mMRC difference (p=0.001) were the strongest associated factorspredictors of awareness of pulmonary rehabilitation. Conclusion: Many factors may influence the patients' knowledgeattitudes toward pulmonary rehabilitation. We found that a higher preoperative CAT score and a larger mMRC difference were the associated factorsstrongest predictors of awareness of pulmonary rehabilitation. Besides, more attention should be given to the other patients.