Respiratory Complaints in Chinese
| Autor: | Karel P. Van de Woestijne, Shunwei Li, Omer Van den Bergh, Yuanjue Zhu, Jiangna Han, Claudia Put, Xiansheng Chen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine medicine.disease Chinese people respiratory tract diseases Internal medicine Severity of illness medicine Physical therapy Breathing Anxiety Sputum medicine.symptom Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business Cardiopulmonary disease Asthma Cohort study |
| Zdroj: | Chest. 127:1942-1951 |
| ISSN: | 0012-3692 |
| Popis: | Study objectives We investigated the qualitative components of a wide range of Chinese descriptors of dyspnea and associated symptoms, and their relevance for clinical diagnosis. Measurements Sixty-one spontaneously reported descriptors were elicited in Chinese patients to make a symptom checklist, which was administered to new groups of patients with different cardiopulmonary diseases, to patients with medically unexplained dyspnea and to healthy subjects. Results Test-retest reliability was satisfactory for most of the descriptors. A principal component analysis on 61 descriptors yielded the following eight factors: dyspnea-effort of breathing; dyspnea-affective aspect; wheezing; anxiety; tingling; palpitation; coughing and sputum; and dying experience. Although the descriptors of dyspnea-effort of breathing resembled Western wordings and were shared by patients with a variety of diseases, the descriptors of dyspnea-affective aspect appeared to be more culturally specific and were primarily linked to the diagnosis of medically unexplained dyspnea, whereas wheezing was specifically linked to asthma. Conclusions Three factors of breathlessness were found in Chinese. The descriptors of dyspnea-effort of breathing and wheezing appear to be similar to Western descriptors, whereas the dyspnea-affective aspect seems to bear cultural specificity. |
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