Department of Internal Diseases Nursing, Zübeyde Hanım Faculty of Health Sciences, Niğde Ömer Halisdemir University, Niğde, Turkey (Dr Kılıç); Department of Internal Diseases Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Çukurova University, Adana, Turkey (Dr Karadağ); and Department of Chest Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey (Dr Tutar).

Correspondence: Züleyha Kılıç, PhD, RN, Department of Internal Diseases Nursing, Zübeyde Hanım Faculty of Health Sciences, Niğde Ömer Halisdemir University, 51100 Niğde, Turkey ([email protected]).

The authors sincerely thank the individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who participated in the research.

This study was supported by the University's Scientific Research Projects Support Unit with project no. TDK-2017-6669.

Author Contributions: Z. Kılıç: literature search, data collection, study design, manuscript preparation; S. Karadağ: study design, analysis of data, review of manuscript; N. Tutar: review of manuscript. All the listed authors meet the authorship criteria, and all the authors are in agreement with the content of the manuscript.

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.