ArticleEuropean journal of epidemiology2004
Psychological distress in hospitalized patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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- 'The COPD breathlessness manual': a randomised controlled trial to test a cognitive-behavioural manual versus information booklets on health service use, mood and health status, in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.NPJ primary care respiratory medicine · 2014Trial
- Validation of the Distress Thermometer for detecting psychological distress in patients with stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: optimal cut-off score and influencing factors.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2025Article
- Relationship Between Social Support, Symptom Burden, Dyspnea, Perceived Stress, Perceived Stigma, Coping Styles, and Psychological Distress in Patients with Stable COPD: A Structural Equation Model.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2025Observational
- Psychological distress and its associated factors among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Hunan, China: a cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The Association of Low Income and High Stress with Acute Care Use in COPD Patients.Chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (Miami, Fla.) · 2020Article
- Delayed but successful response to noninvasive ventilation in COPD patients with acute hypercapnic respiratory failure.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2017Observational
- Anxiety and depression-Important psychological comorbidities of COPD.Journal of thoracic disease · 2014Review
- Anxiety and depression in COPD: current understanding, unanswered questions, and research needs.Chest · 2008Review
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- A qualitative study of the sources of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease-related emotional distress.Chronic respiratory diseaseArticle
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Abstract
objectivesTo investigate the prevalence of psychological distress in hospitalized patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and to examine possible associations between psychological distress and several sociodemographic variables.
methodsThe Hopkins Symptom Checklist was used to gather data from 92 hospitalized COPD patients. These data were compared with 3,319 respondents aged 45 or over drawn from the 1998 Norwegian Statistics Health Survey. The latter were divided into four groups: respondents with COPD, respondents with other respiratory diseases, respondents with mixed chronic diseases, and a healthy group.
resultsThe prevalence of psychological distress was found to be 58.7% in the hospitalized COPD patients and 42.9% in the community-based COPD sample. After controlling for sociodemographic variables and current smoking, the results showed a higher risk of psychological distress among hospitalized COPD patients (OR = 23.69; 95% CI: 13.37-41.98) and the community-based COPD sample (OR = 18.16; 95% CI: 8.31-39.68), and with sub-samples with other respiratory diseases (OR = 5.87; 95% CI: 3.82-9.02), and mixed chronic diseases (OR = 3.51; 95% CI: 2.39-5.18).
conclusionsCOPD is associated with a high prevalence of psychological distress in both hospital and community settings. Furthermore, it appears that age, gender, education, marital status, and current smoking status do not substantially mediate the association between the severity of psychological distress and COPD status. The results provide additional evidence of the importance of screening for psychological distress symptoms in both hospitalized and community-based patients with COPD.
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