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Sara Balestracci

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Disability in moderate chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Prevalence, burden and assessment-results from a real-life study

2014

<b><i>Background:</i></b> The role of disability and its association with patient-reported outcomes in the nonsevere forms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has never been explored. <b><i>Objectives:</i></b> The aim of this study was to assess, in a cross-sectional real-life study, the prevalence and degree of disability in moderate COPD patients and to assess its association with health status, illness perception, risk of death and well-being. <b><i>Methods:</i></b> Moderate COPD outpatients attending scheduled visits were involved in a quantitative research program using a questionnaire-based data collec…

MalePulmonary and Respiratory Medicinemedicine.medical_specialtyChronic ObstructiveActivities of daily livingCross-sectional studyHealth StatusPulmonary diseaseChronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Disability; Patient-reported outcomes; Activities of Daily Living; Aged; Cross-Sectional Studies; Disability Evaluation; Female; Health Status; Humans; Italy; Male; Middle Aged; Pulmonary Disease Chronic Obstructive; Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSettore MED/10 - Malattie Dell'Apparato RespiratorioChronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Disability; Patient-reported outcomes; Activities of Daily Living; Aged; Cross-Sectional Studies; Disability Evaluation; Female; Health Status; Humans; Italy; Male; Middle Aged; Pulmonary Disease Chronic Obstructive; Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine; Medicine (all)Illness perceptionsPulmonary DiseasePulmonary Disease Chronic ObstructiveDisability EvaluationActivities of Daily LivingMedicineHumansDisease burdenAgedCOPDDisabilityPatient-reported outcomesbusiness.industryMedicine (all)Chronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseMiddle Agedmedicine.diseaseCross-Sectional StudiesItalyPhysical therapyFemaleRisk of deathbusinessLife study
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RhinAsthma patient perspective: a short daily asthma and rhinitis QoL assessment.

2012

Background The present study aimed to develop a short validated patient-completed questionnaire, the RhinAsthma Patient Perspective (RAPP), to assess the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with asthma and comorbid allergic rhinitis in clinical practice. Methods A provisional RAPP questionnaire was formed from candidate items identified through retrospective analysis of 333 RHINASTHMA questionnaires. This was then tested on 150 asthma patients with allergic rhinitis. Results Psychometric analyses identified eight items fitting a unidimensional model to form RAPP. Internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha coefficient > 0.8) and agreement with RHINASTHMA (r = −0.31, P = 0.0001) we…

AdultMalemedicine.medical_specialtyRhinitis Allergic PerennialPsychometricsAdolescentPsychometricsVisual analogue scaleassessmentConcordanceImmunologyPopulationSettore MED/10 - Malattie Dell'Apparato RespiratoriorhinitisAllergicCronbach's alphaQuality of lifeSurveys and Questionnaires80 and overmedicineSurveys and QuestionnaireImmunology and AllergyHumansdaily practiceeducationAsthmaAgedAged 80 and overeducation.field_of_studybusiness.industryassessment; asthma; daily practice; quality of life; rhinitis; Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Aged 80 and over; Asthma; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Psychometrics; Rhinitis Allergic; Rhinitis Allergic Perennial; Quality of Life; Surveys and Questionnaires; Immunology and Allergy; ImmunologyMiddle Agedmedicine.diseasePerennialRhinitis AllergichumanitiesAsthmarhinitiConvergent validityassessment; asthma; daily practice; quality of life; rhinitisPhysical therapyQuality of LifeFemalebusinessPsychometricHumanAllergy
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