RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Mood's state, illness behaviour and quality of life in COPD and CHF patients with comparable functional status
JF European Respiratory Journal
JO Eur Respir J
FD European Respiratory Society
SP P2188
VO 44
IS Suppl 58
A1 Chiara Fante
A1 Panagiota Tzani
A1 Marina Aiello
A1 Chiara Scelfo
A1 Tareq Khourieh
A1 Emilio Marangio
A1 Carlo Pruneti
A1 Alfredo Chetta
YR 2014
UL http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/44/Suppl_58/P2188.abstract
AB Introduction: People may widely differ in their emotional responses to illness. We hypothesized that patients with chronic disabling pulmonary or cardiac disease, but with comparable functional status may have similar emotional responses to the underlying disease. Accordingly, we assessed mood's state, illness behaviour and quality of life in COPD and CHF patients with comparable exercise tolerance.Methods: 19 COPD (FEV1 < 80% pred and FEV1/VC < 70%; 2F, mean age 70±5 yr, BMI 29±5 kg/m2) and 21 CHF (Ejection fraction < 50%; 4F, mean age 67±9 yr, BMI 30±5 kg/m2) patients were assessed by cardiopulmonary exercise test (CPET) and by the Profile of Mood States (POMS), Illness Behaviour Questionnaire (IBQ) and Short Form-36 health survey (SF-36) to evaluate respectively mood's state, illness behaviour and quality of life.Results: VO2 peak values were 17.8 mL/kg/min ±5 and 16.6 mL/kg/min ±5 in COPD and CHF patients, respectively (p=ns). No significant differences were found in POMS, IBQ and SF-36 scores between the two groups. In all patients, VO2 peak was significantly and directly related to SF-36 physical activity and general health subscales and to IBQ dysphoria subscale (p< 0.05 for all comparisons).Conclusions: Our pilot study shows that patients with chronic pulmonary or cardiac disabling disease, but with comparable functional status do not differ in mood's state, illness behaviour and quality of life. Maximal exercise capacity was also related to illness behaviour and quality of life, but not to mood's state.