COPD at the end of life: Predictors of the emotional distress of patients and their family caregivers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Few studies have focused on patients' emotional distress with end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and their main family caregivers.

Methods

Cross-sectional data about emotional, functional, and burden-related variables were collected from 85 patients with end-stage COPD and their 85 respective main family caregivers to determine the variables that could predict their emotional well-being. Descriptive analyses, comparison of means, hierarchical regression models, and comparative quali-quantitative analyses were carried out.

Results

Data show that the great majority of patients with COPD spend years with this diagnosis, and have been admitted to the hospital several times in advance stage of illness the previous year of the moment of end-of

SUBMITTER: Soto-Rubio A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7567384 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature