Accuracy of Expected Symptoms and Subsequent Quality of Life Measures Among Adults With COPD.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Patients' expectations for future health guide their decisions and enable them to prepare, adapt, and cope. However, little is known about how inaccurate expectations may affect patients' illness outcomes.

Objective

To assess the association between patients' expectation inaccuracies and health-related quality of life.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study of patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was conducted from 2017 to 2021, which included a 24-month follow-up period. Eligible participants received outpatient primary care at pulmonary clinics of a single large US health system. Data were analyzed between 2021 and 2023.

Exposure

Expectation accuracy, measured by comparing patients' self-reported expectatio

SUBMITTER: Hart JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10663971 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature