Auto-evaluation of Dyspnea

Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc- Université Catholique de Louvain

Status: Completed

Conditions: Lung Diseases

Treatments: Other: dyspnea

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03598569

Autodyspnea

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary aim of this study was to compare patients-rated evaluation and caregiver's assessment of dyspnea with the standard tools in pulmonology unit (Borg scale and visual analog scale) and the secondary aim was to performed an analysis depending on the diseases (lung cancer vs. other lung diseases) and to verify the agreement between the evaluation between both visual analog scale and modified Borg scale.

Enrollment: 271 patients

Sex

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age ≥18 and
• to have a diagnosis of acute or chronic respiratory disease

Exclusion criteria

• mental or cognitive disorders
• inability to understand the local language

Trial design

271 participants in 2 patient groups

lung cancer

Treatment:

Other: dyspnea

other lung diseases

Treatment:

Other: dyspnea