Anecdotal experience and qualitative accounts suggest that singing groups, classes or choirs specifically for people with COPD (henceforth referred to as COPD-SGs) are effective in improving health. However, this is not reflected in the quantitative evidence. This meta-ethnography deployed phenomenological methods to explore this discrepancy. Analysis identified the phenomena of being together, being uplifted and being involved as central benefits of COPD-SGs. When viewed through the phenomenological lens of body-social as distinct from body-subject and body-object, findings demonstrated that the qualitative effectiveness of COPD-SGs is greatest on a collective basis. Qualitative research into the effectiveness of COPD-SGs offers more favourable results because phenomenological approaches can identify collective benefits that quantitative methods cannot. COPD-SGs should seek to maximise these collective benefits by rediscovering their cultural and artistic heritage within the national and global Arts in Health (AiH) movement, which has long emphasised the radical creative and healing power of group activity.

轶事经验和定性说明表明，专门为 COPD 患者（以下称为 COPD-SG）举办的歌唱团体、课程或合唱团可有效改善健康状况。然而，这并没有反映在定量证据中。这种元人种学部署了现象学方法来探索这种差异。分析确定了团结、振奋和参与的现象是 COPD-SG 的核心益处。当通过与身体-主体和身体-客体不同的身体-社会的现象学视角来看待时研究结果表明，COPD-SG 的定性有效性在集体基础上是最大的。对 COPD-SG 有效性的定性研究提供了更有利的结果，因为现象学方法可以识别定量方法无法识别的集体利益。COPD-SG 应该通过在国家和全球健康艺术 (AiH) 运动中重新发现他们的文化和艺术遗产来寻求最大化这些集体利益，该运动长期以来一直强调团体活动的激进创造力和治愈能力。