Multiple symptoms in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Norway

Signe Berit Bentsen, Doris Gundersen, Joerg Assmus, Heidi Bringsvor and Astrid Berland

Nursing & Health Sciences, 2013, vol. 15, issue 3, 292-299

Abstract: This paper examines the prevalence of multiple symptoms and the relationships between future expectations and multiple symptoms in a cross‐sectional study of 100 patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. A questionnaire was used to examine the patients’ symptoms of breathlessness, anxiety, depression, sleeplessness, fatigue, and pain, and their outlook for the future. All patients reported breathlessness, 64% anxiety, 69% depression, 28% sleeplessness, 72% fatigue, and 45% pain. Those with anxiety reported significant depression (P

Date: 2013
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