Resilience and health-related quality of life in patients with pulmonary diseases receiving ambulatory oxygen therapy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pulmonary diseases affect health-related quality of life (HRQoL), but there are few data on patients' adaptation to a serious illness. This study assessed resilience and its associations with HRQoL, life satisfaction, anxiety and depression in patients with pulmonary diseases receiving ambulatory oxygen therapy.

Methods

In this prospective cohort study, we enrolled 42 patients with pulmonary diseases receiving ambulatory oxygen therapy. The patients completed the following questionnaires at baseline and after one and three months; the Resilience Scale-25, the Life Satisfaction Scale-4, the 15D instrument of HRQoL, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and the Quebec User Evaluation of Satisfaction with Assistive Technology (QUEST 2.0). To compare HRQoL,

SUBMITTER: Isokaanta S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8088314 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature