Frontiers in psychology
Profiling family resilience in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a network analysis approach to identifying intervention targets
By Peng Q, Zhang N, Liu J and 7 others.
Abstract
Aim
This study aimed to explore the status of and the factors influencing family resilience among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and caregivers and to construct a related structural model and system of influencing factors for family resilience based on network analysis methods. Furthermore, the study aimed to identify the core variables in the network, explore the interaction mechanisms and pathways of different variables, and provide an intervention basis and direction for the improvement of resilience in COPD families.
Design
The study employed a cross-sectional survey design.
Methods
A total of 221 COPD patient-caregiver dyads were recruited using convenience sampling from April 2023 to November 2024 at two hospitals in Tianjin, China. SPSS 26.0 was used to perform descriptive statistics, univariate analysis, correlation analysis, and multivariate analysis. R 4.2.1 was used to construct the network of family resilience dimensions, the item network, and the network models of family resilience and its influencing factors among COPD patients and caregivers.