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Evaluation of Quality of Life with the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Assessment Test in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and the Effect of Dyspnea on Disease-Specific Quality of Life in These Patients

PURPOSE: The chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) assessment test (CAT) was recently introduced for use in assessing disease-specific quality of life and follow-up of patients with COPD. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of the dyspnea on disease-specific quality of life d...

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Autores principales: Okutan, Oguzhan, Tas, Dilaver, Demirer, Ersin, Kartaloglu, Zafer
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Yonsei University College of Medicine 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3743182/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23918572
http://dx.doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2013.54.5.1214
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author Okutan, Oguzhan
Tas, Dilaver
Demirer, Ersin
Kartaloglu, Zafer
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description PURPOSE: The chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) assessment test (CAT) was recently introduced for use in assessing disease-specific quality of life and follow-up of patients with COPD. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of the dyspnea on disease-specific quality of life detected by CAT score in patients with COPD. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this study, 90 stable patients with COPD as defined by the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) criteria were included. The level of dyspnea was assessed with the Medical Research Council (MRC) dyspnea scale, and disease-specific quality of life was assessed with CAT score. RESULTS: The mean±SD age was 68.5±10.9 (range 41-97) years. A significant relationship was established between CAT score, MRC dyspnea scale score and GOLD stage in patients with COPD. There was also a positive correlation between dyspnea scale scores and GOLD stage in the patients (p<0.001), as well as positive correlation between CAT score and dyspnea scale score (p<0.001). CAT score showed a significant correlation with hospitalization and exacerbations (p<0.05). CONCLUSION: Dyspnea is an important symptom that may impact quality of life in patients with COPD. CAT was shown to be a simple, fast and intelligible measurement of disease-specific quality of life, and was correlated with levels of dyspnea in patients with COPD.
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spelling pubmed-37431822013-09-01 Evaluation of Quality of Life with the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Assessment Test in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and the Effect of Dyspnea on Disease-Specific Quality of Life in These Patients Okutan, Oguzhan Tas, Dilaver Demirer, Ersin Kartaloglu, Zafer Yonsei Med J Original Article PURPOSE: The chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) assessment test (CAT) was recently introduced for use in assessing disease-specific quality of life and follow-up of patients with COPD. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of the dyspnea on disease-specific quality of life detected by CAT score in patients with COPD. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this study, 90 stable patients with COPD as defined by the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) criteria were included. The level of dyspnea was assessed with the Medical Research Council (MRC) dyspnea scale, and disease-specific quality of life was assessed with CAT score. RESULTS: The mean±SD age was 68.5±10.9 (range 41-97) years. A significant relationship was established between CAT score, MRC dyspnea scale score and GOLD stage in patients with COPD. There was also a positive correlation between dyspnea scale scores and GOLD stage in the patients (p<0.001), as well as positive correlation between CAT score and dyspnea scale score (p<0.001). CAT score showed a significant correlation with hospitalization and exacerbations (p<0.05). CONCLUSION: Dyspnea is an important symptom that may impact quality of life in patients with COPD. CAT was shown to be a simple, fast and intelligible measurement of disease-specific quality of life, and was correlated with levels of dyspnea in patients with COPD. Yonsei University College of Medicine 2013-09-01 2013-07-23 /pmc/articles/PMC3743182/ /pubmed/23918572 http://dx.doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2013.54.5.1214 Text en © Copyright: Yonsei University College of Medicine 2013 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Okutan, Oguzhan
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Evaluation of Quality of Life with the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Assessment Test in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and the Effect of Dyspnea on Disease-Specific Quality of Life in These Patients
title Evaluation of Quality of Life with the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Assessment Test in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and the Effect of Dyspnea on Disease-Specific Quality of Life in These Patients
title_full Evaluation of Quality of Life with the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Assessment Test in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and the Effect of Dyspnea on Disease-Specific Quality of Life in These Patients
title_fullStr Evaluation of Quality of Life with the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Assessment Test in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and the Effect of Dyspnea on Disease-Specific Quality of Life in These Patients
title_full_unstemmed Evaluation of Quality of Life with the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Assessment Test in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and the Effect of Dyspnea on Disease-Specific Quality of Life in These Patients
title_short Evaluation of Quality of Life with the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Assessment Test in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and the Effect of Dyspnea on Disease-Specific Quality of Life in These Patients
title_sort evaluation of quality of life with the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease assessment test in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and the effect of dyspnea on disease-specific quality of life in these patients
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3743182/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23918572
http://dx.doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2013.54.5.1214
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