Anxiety in adults with asthma during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: a Canadian perspective

Autor: Sophia Linton, Kayley Xu, Lubnaa Hossenbaccus, Hannah Botting, Sarah Garvey, Adam Sunavsky, Lisa M. Steacy, Dean A. Tripp, Anne K. Ellis
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology, Vol 19, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1710-1492
DOI: 10.1186/s13223-023-00833-z
Popis: Abstract Background Asthma is a chronic airway inflammatory disease that affects millions of Canadians and often contributes to higher levels of anxiety among patients. Since the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic was a time of increased anxiety and fear among the Canadian population, it was thought that those with asthma may experience heightened anxiety levels due to uncertain access to care, the potential to misinterpret asthma symptoms for symptoms of COVID-19 (or vice versa), and the concern about being treated differently by those around them when experiencing asthma symptoms. Therefore, this study sought to perform a cross-sectional analysis of the asthma-anxiety relationship in adults with and without asthma in the unique context of the COVID-19 pandemic from a Canadian perspective. Methods This study employed the COVID-19 Associated Anxiety in Allergic Rhinitis and Asthma patients Experiencing Symptoms (CAAARES) survey, consisting of COVID-19-specific questions, the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Assessment-7 (GAD-7) and the Asthma Control Questionnaire-6 (ACQ-6). Data collection occurred through the Qualtrics XM platform and data analyses were conducted with the IBM SPSS Statistics 28 software. Results A total of 741 valid responses were collected (asthma group, n = 244; control group, n = 497). 31.6% and 26.2% of respondents in the asthma and control groups, respectively, met the diagnostic criteria for GAD. There was no significant difference (p = .067) in mean GAD-7 scores between the two groups. A Hierarchal Multiple Regression (HMR) model was developed, and neither asthma status nor ACQ-6 score had a significant predictive effect on the GAD-7 score. There was a statistically significant (p
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