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César de Andrade de Lima1, Regina Celia de Oliveira1, Simone Andrade Gonçalves de Oliveira2
1Universidade de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.
Objective:
to assess quality of life, anxiety and depression in patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
Method:
a cross-sectional, quantitative study, conducted in a reference hospital for the treatment of pulmonary diseases. Seventy patients were assessed, using a sociodemographic and clinical questionnaire, Beck's anxiety and Depression Inventories and the SF-36 Quality of Life Scale.
Results:
the participants had better quality of life in the vitality, mental health and social role functioning domains (median=50.0) and worse in limitation by physical and emotional role functioning (median=0.0 points). Anxiety, depression and oxygen dependence were associated with poorer results in the quality of life domains.
Conclusion:
all patients were classified with severe anxiety level and moderate depression predominance. Patients had low quality of life scores in all domains.
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