“I Can Breathe Again!” Patients’ Self-Management Strategies for Episodic Breathlessness in Advanced Disease, Derived From Qualitative Interviews

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 228-234

  Simon, Steffen T ^a,b   Weingärtner, Vera ^a   Higginson, Irene J ^c   Benalia, Hamid ^c   Gysels, Marjolein ^c   Murtagh, Fliss E M ^c   Spicer, James ^c   Linde, Philipp ^a   Voltz, Raymond ^a   Bausewein, Claudia ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b Institute of Palliative Care   (Germany)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coping; dyspnea; episodic breathlessness; palliative care; respiratory symptoms; self management

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; MORPHINE; SALBUTAMOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; BREATHING EXERCISE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DYSPNEA; EPISODIC BREATHLESSNESS; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; INHALER; INTERVIEW; LEISURE; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; NEBULIZER; OXYGEN THERAPY; PANIC REDUCTION TECHNIQUE; REDUCTION OF PHYSICAL EXERTION; SELF CARE; VERY ELDERLY; COMPLICATION; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF-MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84977496676     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: 18736513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2016.02.016     Document Type: Article

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