Explain Breathlessness: Could 'Usual' Explanations Contribute to Maladaptive Beliefs of People Living with Breathlessness?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Explanations provided by healthcare professionals contribute to patient beliefs. Little is known about how healthcare professionals explain chronic breathlessness to people living with this adverse sensation.

Methods

A purpose-designed survey disseminated via newsletters of Australian professional associations (physiotherapy, respiratory medicine, palliative care). Respondents provided free-text responses for their usual explanation and concepts important to include, avoid, or perceived as difficult to understand by recipients. Content analysis coded free text into mutually exclusive categories with the proportion of respondents in each category reported.

Results

Respondents (n = 61) were predominantly clinicians (93%) who frequently (80% daily/weekl

SUBMITTER: Williams MT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11431128 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature