Prescription of oral corticosteroids in near-fatal asthma patients: Relationship with panic-fear, anxiety and depression

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 459-465

  Romero Frais, Esther ^a   Vázquez, María Isabel ^a   Sández, Eva ^a   Blanco Aparicio, Marina ^b   Otero, Isabel ^b   Verea, Héctor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL JUAN CANALEJO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; Near fatal asthma; Oral corticosteroids; Panic fear

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PANIC; PRESCRIPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANXIETY; ASTHMA; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANIC DISORDER; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 26444569243     PISSN: 00365564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2005.00477.x     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Baron, C., Lamarre, A., Veilleux, P., Ducharme, G., Spier, S. & Lapierre, J.-G. (1986). Psychomaintenance of childhood asthma: A study of 34 children. Journal of Asthma, 23(2), 69-79.
2. Beck, A. T., Rush, A. J., Shaw, B. F. & Emery, G. (1979). Cognitive therapy of depression. New York: Guilford Press.
3. Beck, A. T., Steer, R. A. & Garbin, M. G. (1988). Psychometric properties of the Beck Depression Inventory: Twenty-five years of evaluation. Clinical Psychology Review, 8, 77-100.
4. Bender, B. G., Lerner, J. A. & Poland, J. E. (1991). Association between corticosteroids and psychologic change in hospitalized asthmatic children. Annals of Allergy, 66, 414-419.
5. Bosley, C. M., Fosbury, J. A. & Cochrane, G. M. (1995). The psychological factors associated with poor compliance with treatment in asthma. The European Respiratory Journal, 8(6), 899-904.
6. Brooks, C., Richards, J., Bailey, W., Martin, B., Windsor, R. & Soong, S. (1989). Subjective symptomatology of asthma in an outpatient population. Psychosomatic Medicine, 51, 102-108.
7. Brown, E. S., Khan, D. A. & Nejtek, V. A. (1999). The psychiatric side effects of corticosteroids. Annals of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunolology, 83, 495-504.
8. Brown, E. S., Suppes, T., Khan, D. A. & Carmody, T. J. (2002). Mood changes during prednisone bursts in outpatients with asthma. Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, 22, 55-61.
9. Campbell, D. A., Yellowlees, P. M., McLennan, G., Coates, J. R., Frith, P. A., Gluyas, P. A., Latimer, K. M., Luke, C. G., Martin, A. J. & Ruffin, R. E. (1995). Psychiatric and medical features of near fatal asthma. Thorax, 50, 251-259.
10. Crompton, G. (1987). The catastrophic asthmatic. British Journal of Diseases of the Chest, 81, 321-325.
11. Dirks, J. F., Jones, N. F. & Kinsman, R. A. (1977). Panic-fear: A personality dimension related to intractability in asthma. Psychosomatic Medicine, 39, 120-126.
12. Dirks, J. F., Kinsman, R. A., Horton, D. J., Fross, K. H. & Jones, N. F. (1978). Panic-fear in asthma: Rehospitalization following intensive long-term treatment. Psychosomatic Medicine, 40, 5-13.
13. Dirks, J. F., Kinsman, R. A., Staudenmayer, H. & Kleiger, J. H. (1979). Panic-fear in asthma: symptomatology as an index of signal anxiety and personality as an index of ego resources. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 167, 615-619.
14. Edmonds, M. L., Camargo, C. A., Brenner, B. E. & Rowe, B. H. (2002). Replacement of oral corticosteroids with inhaled corticosteroids in the treatment of acute asthma following emergency department discharge: A meta-analysis. Chest, 121, 1798-1805.
15. Gifford, S., Murawski, B. J., Kline, N. S. & Sachar, E. J. (1976). An unusual adverse reaction to self-medication with Prednisone: An irrational crime during a fugue-state. International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 7(2), 97-122.
16. Gulías, A. M. (1999). Pánico-Miedo y psicomantenimiento del asma bronquial: relación con variables sociodemográficas y de evolución clínica. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
17. Harrison, B. D. W. (1998). Psychosocial aspects of asthma in adults. Thorax, 53, 519-525.
18. Hyland, M. E., Kenyon, C. A. P., Taylor, M. & Morice, A. H. (1993). Steroid prescribing for asthmatics: Relationship with Asthma Symptom Checklist and Living with Asthma Questionnaire. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 32, 505-511.
19. Iglesias-Balboa, R. (1982). La Ansiedad Estado/Rasgo (STAI) en un grupo clínico (Síndrome tóxico). Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain.
20. Innes, N. J., Reid, A., Halstead, J., Watkin, S. W. & Harrison, B. D. W. (1998). Psychosocial risk factors in near-fatal asthma and in asthma deaths. Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London, 32(5), 430-434.
21. Janson-Bjerklie, S., Ferketich, S., Benner, P. & Becker, G (1992). Clinical markers of asthma severity and risk: Importance of subjective as well as objective factors. Heart and Lung, 27(3), 265-272.
22. Kayani, S. & Shannon, D. C. (2002). Adverse behavioral effects of treatment for acute exacerbation of asthma in children: A comparison of two doses of oral steroids. Chest, 122, 624-628.
23. Kinsman, R. A., Dahlem, N. W., Spector, S. & Staudenmayer, H. (1977). Observations on subjective symptomatology, coping behaviour and medical decisions in asthma. Psychosomatic Medicine, 39, 102-119.
24. Kinsman, R. A., Luparello, T., O'Banion, K. & Spector, S. (1973). Multidimensional analysis of the subjective symptomatology of asthma. Psychosomatic Medicine, 35, 250-267.
25. Kinsman, R. A., Spector, S. L., Shucard, D. W. & Luparello, T. J. (1974). Observations on patterns of subjective symptomatology of acute asthma. Psychosomatic Medicine, 36, 129-143.
26. Kolbe, J., Vamos, M., Fergusson, W. & Elkind, G. (1998). Determinants of management errors in acute severe asthma. Thorax, 53, 14-20.
27. Mash, B., Bheekie, A. & Jones, P. W. (2001). Inhaled vs oral steroids for adults with chronic asthma. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, (1), CD002160.
28. Miller, B. D. (1987). Depression and asthma: A potentially lethal mixture. The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 80 (3 Pt 2), 481-486.
29. Mitchell, D. M., Gildeh, P., Rehahn, M., Dimond, A. & Collins, J. V. (1984). Psychological changes and improvement in chronic airflow limitation after corticosteroid treatment. Thorax, 39(12), 924-927.
30. Molfino, N. A. & Slutsky, A. S. (1994). Near-fatal asthma. The European Respiratory Journal, 7(4), 981-990.
31. National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institutes. Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) (2002). Global Strategy for Asthma Management and Prevention. NHLBI/WHO Workshop Report, NHI Publication No. 02-3659.
32. Patten, S. B. & Lavorato, D. H. (2001). Medication use and major depressive syndrome in a community population. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 42(2), 124-131.
33. Ritz, T., Bobb, C., Edwards, M. & Steptoe, A. (2001). The structure of symptom report in asthma: A reevaluation. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 51, 639-645.
34. Ruffin, R. E., Latimer, K. M. & Schembri, D. A. (1991). Longitudinal study of near fatal asthma. Chest, 99(1), 77-83.
35. Sanz, J. (1996). Memory biases in social anxiety and depression. Cognition and Emotion, 10, 87-105.
36. Sanz, J. & Vázquez, C. (1998). Fiabilidad, validez y datos normatives del Inventario para la Depresión de Beck. Psicothema, 10(2), 303-318.
37. Sears, M. R. (1998). Asthma treatment: inhaled beta-agonists. Canadian Respiratory Journal, 5(Suppl. A), 54A-59A.
38. Seisdedos, N. (1982). Manual del Cuestionario de Ansiedad EstadoRasgo (Adaptación española). Madrid: TEA.
39. Spielberger, C. D. (Ed.) (1966). Anxiety and behaviour. New York: Academic Press.
40. Spielberger, C. D., Gorsuch, R. L. & Lushene, R. E. (1970). STAI Manual for the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (Self-Evaluation Questionnaire). Palo Alto, California: Consulting Psychologists Press.
41. Strunk, R. C., Nicklas, R. A., Milgrom, H. & Ikle, D. (1999). Fatal and near-fatal asthma questionnaire: Prelude to a national registry. The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 104(4), 763-768.
42. Vázquez, C., Avia, M. D., Alonso, B. & Fernández, E. (1989, July). A test of the diathesis-stress model of depression: Attributional style as a predictor of dysphoric reactions after an academic failure. Paper presented at the I European Congress of Psychology, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
43. Vázquez, M. I. (2000). Relationships between psychological variables relevant to asthma and patients' quality of life. Psychological Reports, 86, 31-33.
44. Walsh, L. J., Wong, C. A., Oborne, J., Cooper, S., Lewis, S. A., Pringle, M., Hubbard, R. & Tattersfield, A. E. (2001). Adverse effects of oral corticosteroids in relation to dose in patients with lung disease. Thorax, 56, 279-284.
45. Wilson, R. C. & Jones, P. W. (1991). Differentiation between the intensity of breathlessness and the distress it evokes in normal subjects during exercise. Clinical Science, 80, 65-70.
46. Yellowlees, P. M. & Ruffin, R. E. (1989). Psychological defenses and coping styles in patients following a life-threatening attack of asthma. Chest, 95, 1298-1303.
47. Zimet, G. D., Dirks, J. F. & Kinsman, R. A. (1979). Some aspects of the experience of asthma: Personality style dependent appraisal. The Journal of Asthma Research, 16(4), 125-130.