Validation of Chinese SRI Questionnaire (VCSRI)

Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; Hypercapnic Respiratory Failure

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02240225

GZIRD-20140910

Details and patient eligibility

About

Assessment of health-related quality of life in COPD patients with severe chronic respiratory failure requires appropriate and highly specific measurement tools. We attempt to validate the Chinese version of the Severe Respiratory Insufficiency Questionnaire (SRI)

Enrollment: 150 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Adult COPD Patients with chronic hypercapnic respiratory failure established on home noninvasive ventilation for at least 1 month
2. Patients are in a clinically stable state,without any changes of medication during the previous 4 weeks.

Exclusion criteria

1. patient's refusal to participate
2. Patients with evidence of acute respiratory failure i.e.patients with worsening of symptoms during the previous 2 weeks, a pH ,7.35, or with signs of respiratory infection