![]() ![]() Estarreja has already in place a complex of sports and leisure activities. Interventions adapted to the local context, using existing social support and community structures are the most successful. Thus, encouraging patients to adopt a more active lifestyle is a major but highly challenging goal. People with CRD are less active than their healthy peers and this inactivity is related to worse prognosis. COATIVAR will be a community-response to maintain patients with CRD and their families integrated and active in the region of Estarreja. ![]() Although unquestionable benefits were obtained, they were then left with no community-response, adapted to their condition, to maintain such benefits. COATIVAR capitalizes on PRISMA where patients with chronic respiratory diseases (CRD) and their families had access to a 12-week pulmonary rehabilitation programme. ![]()
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