In partnership with the Lung Foundation Australia, IMPACCT is undertaking the next stage of an international research project to design an optimal Breathlessness Action Plan to be used by people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) (sometimes also called emphysema, chronic bronchitis or chronic asthma).
Breathlessness ‘action plans’ are easy-to-follow guides that summarise what to do when breathlessness becomes worse using simple, non-medicated strategies to help breathing and thinking.
Breathlessness action plans may be the first step of a COPD action plan that establishes the need for additional medical treatment such as antibiotics or emergency care to manage a COPD exacerbation.
Have your say!
During our round 1 and 2 co-design workshops, our teams of people with COPD, support persons and health professionals decided together on the content and design of an optimal Breathlessness Action Plan.
Now you can tell us what you think about the draft plan, including what you like and don’t like about it!
From mid-November 2024, we will make the draft Breathlessness Action Plan publicly available on this web page. A link to an online survey will also be provided here and we will welcome any feedback. You will also have the option of providing further feedback directly to a member of the project team over the phone.
Express your interest
We are currently seeking expressions of interest for this phase of the project from:
- People with COPD
- People who provide support to a person with COPD
- Health Professionals working with people with COPD
You can get in touch with a member of the project team and provide your contact details. We will get in touch with you directly when the draft Breathlessness Action Plan is released for feedback and send you a copy.
Please contact the project team via Breathe@uts.edu.au or call +61 (0)493 867 101.
Previous project phases
The first phase of this project was a survey, which closed at the end of 2023.
The second and third phases of this project involved co-design workshops and were completed in October 2024.