Fatigue in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a qualitative study of people's experiences

Fatigue is reported to be one of the most common symptoms among people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease COPD. However, there is hardly any qualitative research describing how fatigue affects people living with this illness.To describe people's experience of fatigue in daily life when living with moderate to very severe COPD.A purposive sample of 20 people with COPD stages II-IV was recruited from the Obstructive Lung Disease in...