Relevance of multidimensional dyspnea assessment in the context of pulmonary rehabilitation.

ABSTRACT: Objectives: While dyspnea is the main symptom in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), it is often inadequately evaluated in pulmonary rehabilitation (PR), as it is typically measured using only the impact dimension (ID). However, dyspnea is a multidimensional construct including perception (PD) and emotional (ED) domains. Our work aimed to study the complementarity of dyspnea dimensions and their respective ability to identify different evolutions during PR. Methods: 145 people with COPD attending PR were included in this retrospective study. Dyspnea scores from the modified Medical Research Council scale (ID) and the Multidimensional Dyspnea Profile questionnaire (PD/ED), exercise capacity, quality of life at the start (T1) and the end of PR (T2) were collected from

SUBMITTER: Molinier V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11271156 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature