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Published on: January 16, 2015
[Do COPD patients lie about their smoking habit?]
Virginia Almadana Pacheco1, Cristina Benito Bernáldez1, Estefanía Luque Crespo1
1Unidad de Gestión Clínica de Neumología. Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena, Sevilla, España.
Objective:
To determine the deception rate or concordance between the interview on smoking and cooximetry in COPD patients from a monographic consultation.
Design:
Prospective observational study to evaluate the concordance between the values of cooximetry and the response to a clinical interview on smoking.
Setting:
COPD monographic consultation, Pneumology, Seville.
Participants:
Patients with a confirmed diagnosis of COPD in any degree.
Interventions:
Clinical interview and measurement of carbon monoxide by cooximetry.
Main Measurements:
Cooximetry values, responses on smoking, sociodemographic variables.
Results:
n: 169. 107 patients presented values less than or equal to 6 ppm compared to 62 with values greater than 6 ppm, determining a prevalence of active smoking of 36.7%. The deception rate was 19.5% of the total sample (24.3% of all those who claimed not to smoke), with a Cohen kappa of 0.48 and p < 0.000. 40% of patients confessed not having told the truth. No relationship of this data was found with age, accumulated tobacco consumption or FEV1. A significant relationship with sex was found (deception rate: 31.8% in women vs. 15.2% in men, p 0.017).
Conclusions:
In spite of our attempts to make patients stop smoking, a considerable deception rate was found in our consultation; higher among women, recent ex-smokers or in the process of abandonment, so it would be essential to incorporate objective measures such as the cooximeter in the approach of this type of patient.
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