Factors associated with generic health-related quality of life in adult asthma patients in Germany: Cross-sectional study

Abstract

Focusing on disease control and screening for depression and anxiety may be promising approaches to improve HRQOL in adult asthma patients. If a patient shows alarming symptoms of anxiety and/or depression, the patient should then be referred for psychiatric treatment.

Impaired health-related quality of life and related risk factors among US adults with asthma

“…Income, physical activity status, smoking status, coexisting diseases, and depression were associated with impaired HRQoL in all four dimensions: fair/ poor self-rated health, frequent mentally unhealthy days, frequent physically unhealthy days, and frequent days of activity limitation. These results follow other published results that multiple risk factors are associated with impaired HRQoL, including physical inactivity [16], smoking [16], comorbidities [10,18], and depression [12].…”

“…Our findings indicate that females had significantly higher fair/poor self-rated health than males before adjustment with confounding factors (sex, race/ethnicity, age, income, health care coverage, physical activity, smoking, BMI, coexisting diseases, and depression) included in this study, but was significantly lower after adjustment. Similar to other studies [12,24], this suggests the importance of the effects of the confounding factors on the association between being a female and having fair/poor health. Böhmer, et al found that the association between the mental health score of the Short Form 12 Health Survey Questionnaire and being a female adult with asthma was not significant, after adjusting for confounding factors [12].…”

“…Similar to other studies [12,24], this suggests the importance of the effects of the confounding factors on the association between being a female and having fair/poor health. Böhmer, et al found that the association between the mental health score of the Short Form 12 Health Survey Questionnaire and being a female adult with asthma was not significant, after adjusting for confounding factors [12]. Another study also found after adjustment with confounders, gender was not associated with asthma-related quality of life in the asthma symptoms, activity limitation, and emotional function domains [24].…”

“…Decreased QoL has been associated with a number of risk factors among adults with asthma including being female [12,13], older age [14,15], smoking [16], lower income [15,17], comorbidities [10,15,18], physical inactivity [16], obesity [16,19,20], poor mental health [13,21,22], poor asthma control [13,18,23,24], and asthma severity [15,19,25]. However, most studies are outdated and a limited number of studies [8,9,16,26] evaluated/assessed HRQoL among adults with asthma using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) HRQoL measure.…”

Differences in medication adherence are associated with beliefs about medicines in asthma and COPD

“…This study used baseline data from a longitudinal patient cohort study [ 17 ]. Ethical approval was obtained from the Ethics committee of the University of Regensburg (File-Numbers 12-101-0162, 13-101-0091).…”