TY - JOUR T1 - Awareness campaigns on the WORLD COPD Day JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J VL - 44 IS - Suppl 58 SP - P4016 AU - Catarina Lacerda AU - Cecilia Pacheco AU - João Filipe Cruz AU - Ana Luisa Vieira AU - Rui Rolo AU - João Cunha Y1 - 2014/09/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/44/Suppl_58/P4016.abstract N2 - Introduction: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in Portuguese population has a prevalence of 14%. In recent years, the Pneumology Department of Hospital de Braga has developed initiatives of awareness, prevention and screening, integrated in the global COPD day.Objective: To analyze the epidemiological, clinical and functional data of the participants in the world COPD day awareness campaing in the last 2 years.Methods: A cross-sectional study conducted by questionnaire and spirometry applied to all participants in 2012 and 2013 campaigns.Results: Included 296 subjects: 53,4% were males, the mean age was 56.6 years; 39,8% of individuals were active smokers or former smokers; 43,6% had low education level (<4 years of school); Mean BMI was 27,1 kg/m2 (overweight) and 24.3% had history of respiratory disease. Questionnaire analysis revealed that only 32,1% of the participants acknowledged COPD, 26,4% spirometry and 18,2% had actually been previously screened for COPD. Among patients inquired in 2013 (n= 136), 36.8% reported having smoke exposure from a fireplace or stoves inside home and 33.1% reported being or having been exposed to noxious gases/ particles in their workplaces.Eleven spirometries were excluded for not meeting the acceptability and reproducibility criteria. Twenty-nine individuals showed an obstructive respiratory syndrome: 21 mild-obstructive, 5 moderate-obstructive and 3 severe-obstructive. Mean FEV1 was 78.1 %, 96.9 % FVC, FEV1/FVC ratio 64.3 %.Conclusion: The aim of these campaigns is to raise awareness and disclose COPD as important cause of morbidity and mortality. Additionally, patients with newly-diagnosed COPD received appropriate guidance. The prevalence of COPD in the study sample was 10.2 %. ER -