COPD Magazine
As part of our COPD Right Care change programme, IPCRG is proud to present a new digital magazine for people with COPD to support them to self manage their COPD. It embeds guidance, infographics and links to videos our expert team has curated to educate, motivate and inspire.
We know from reports such as Raising the bar for better standards of care for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease presented by The European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patients’ Associations (EFA) at the European Parliament in February 2025 that there is a need for digital health education projects about COPD.
We therefore encourage clinicians to recommend these three issues of the digital magazine to anyone diagnosed with COPD and patient organisations to share it widely.
Read now: Issue 1 | Issue 2 | Issue 3
A printable PDF version is available for selected languages and issues. An enhanced PDF version with increased use of QR codes will be available in the future.
Please share this widely and recommend it to as many people with COPD as you can to help them breathe well, move more and live better. If you are interested in translating any or all issues of the magazine, please projectsupport [at] ipcrg [dot] org (subject: Digital%20Magazine%20-%20Translation) (contact us).
Issue 3: Plan, Take Action, Live Well with COPD
Issue 3, ‘Plan, Take Action, Live Well with COPD’, is the latest and final issue of our COPD Magazine series. It outlines what a normal life with COPD can look like by offering tips on taking recommended medicines, avoiding symptom triggers, quitting tobacco and managing other health conditions. It focuses on interactions with health services, explaining the signs you can look for to notice changes in your health, helping you to make the most of a consultation, and showing how to identify flare-ups and recover afterwards. Living with COPD can be challenging, but this magazine is full of good, practical ideas which have been used by people around the world to stay safe and improve their quality of life. This issue incorporates new video diaries of people with COPD sharing their experiences and tips for managing their conditions, along with curated instructional videos, infographics and action plans.
Issue 3 is currently available in English. If you would like to help produce translations into additional languages, please projectsupport [at] ipcrg [dot] org (subject: COPD%20Magazine%20issue%203%20translation%20query) (get in touch)!
Issue 2: Eat Well, Sleep Well, Feel Well
Issue 2 of the COPD Magazine helps people with COPD to live as well as they can by noticing and managing mood and emotions, restoring energy and sleeping well, eating well, and improving sex life and relationships with others. Following user feedback to issue 1, it incorporates video diaries of people with COPD talking about their everyday lives managing their conditions in response to the themes of this magazine - sharing their stories with people around the world who share their condition and offering their tips for navigating the challenges of COPD.
Issue 2 is currently available in English. If you would like to help produce translations into additional languages, please projectsupport [at] ipcrg [dot] org (subject: COPD%20Magazine%3A%20issue%202%20translation) (get in touch)!
Issue 1: Breathe Well, Move More, Live Better
Issue 1 of the COPD Magazine offers expert guidance, infographics and curated instructional videos to help you self-manage your COPD. This issue covers breathing exercises to improve day-to-day breathing and help when you are particularly out of breath. It also addresses the key obstacles to becoming more physically active and gives examples of how you can increase your physical activity.
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How has the magazine been developed?
IPCRG, is a charity registered in Scotland, that represents primary care on the WHO-convened Global Alliance against chronic Respiratory Diseases, and is the respiratory Special Interest Group of WONCA Europe, the familiy doctor association. Following a specification developed by the IPCRG's Education Committee comprising practising primary care clinicians and academics with a respiratory interest, about what the magazine should contain, a magazine Steering Group was formed. The international Steering Group has comprised practising and academic physiotherapists with a special interest in COPD, patient and carer representatives, including a representative from the European Lung Foundation, and family physicians. The Steering Group developed a search strategy to find the best videos, infographics and guidance. This has guided Teesside University, UK, which IPCRG commissioned, to undertake the evidence searches and produce a shortlist of the best. The Steering Group reviewed the shortlisted resources found by the university team to select those that they judged to offer the most accurate guidance, and be appropriate for a global audience of people with COPD. The text was co-created by the Steering Group and IPCRG using multiple validated sources. Photographs were sourced by IPCRG from its network; new infographics and videos were created where there were gaps. Videos in issue 2 and 3 have been created by people living with COPD in four countries who volunteered to keep video diaries for fourteen days to share their real experience with us.
