Psychosomatische Aspekte des Asthma bronchiale

Wöller, Wolfgang

doi:10.1055/s-2008-1081203

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“…This study was stimulated in large part by Woeller's 2009 paper from the Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine, Rhein-Klinik, Bad Honnef [2]; he reviewed and summarised the current understanding of the psychological aspects of asthma, with respect to aetiology, co-morbidity and compliance. We built on this with our questionnaire study.…”

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“…However, the costs incurred by the disease continue to increase and young people continue to die from it. One area of aetiology that is often neglected in the Western World is the psychological element of asthma; by neglecting this area, potential treatments are also neglected [2-4]. Early in the twentieth century many prominent thinkers had overemphasized the psychological basis of disease; such work is often considered discredited nowadays, but we should not forget how important psychosocial factors are in all diseases.…”

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“…Indeed depressive co-morbidity has been shown to be commonly associated with asthma [[2] and [4]]; but is this cause or effect? This hypothesis was tested by Bender et al [24] in with respect to mild or moderate asthma in children.…”

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Knowledge and Attitudes of GPs in Saxony-Anhalt concerning the Psychological Aspects of Bronchial Asthma: A Questionnaire Study

Reed

Adolf

Werwick

et al. 2010

BioPsychoSocial Med

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Bronchial Asthma is a worldwide condition with particularly high prevalence in first world countries. The reasons are multifactorial but a neglected area is the psychological domain. It is well known that heavy emotions can trigger attacks and that depression negatively affects treatment outcomes. It is also known that personality type has a greater effect on disease prevalence than in many other conditions. However, many potential psychological treatments are hardly considered, neither in treatment guidelines nor in reviews by asthma specialists. Moreover, there is very little research concerning the beliefs and practices of doctors regarding psychological treatments. Using a questionnaire survey we ascertained that local GPs in Saxony-Anhalt have reasonably good knowledge about the psychological elements of asthma; a third consider it to be some of the influence (20-40% aetiology) and a further third consider it to be even more important than that (at least 40% total aetiology). Our GPs use psychosomatic counseling sometimes or usually in the areas of sport and smoking (circa 85% GPs), although less so regarding breathing techniques and relaxation (c40% usually or sometimes do this) However despite this knowledge they refer to the relevant clinicians very rarely (98% sometimes, usually or always refer to a respiratory physician compared with only 11% referring for psychological help).

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confidence: 99%