Auto-evaluation of Dyspnea

Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc- Université Catholique de Louvain271 enrolled

Overview

The primary aim of this study was to compare patients-rated evaluation and caregiver's assessment of dyspnea with the standard tools in pulmonology unit (Borg scale and visual analog scale) and the secondary aim was to performed an analysis depending on the diseases (lung cancer vs. other lung diseases) and to verify the agreement between the evaluation between both visual analog scale and modified Borg scale.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

271

Conditions

Lung Diseases

Interventions

dyspneaOTHER

dyspnea assessment

Eligibility

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * age ≥18 and * to have a diagnosis of acute or chronic respiratory disease Exclusion Criteria: * mental or cognitive disorders * inability to understand the local language

Locations (1)

Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc

Brussels, Belgium

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

visual analog scale

Time frame: 3 seconds

borg scale

Time frame: 3 seconds

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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