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Acceptance of Illness Associates with Better Quality of Life in Patients with Nonmalignant Pulmonary Diseases

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Chronic nonmalignant pulmonary diseases impose a heavy burden on patients, generate health-care costs, and contribute to poor health-related quality of life. It has been found that a wide range of factors negatively affects quality of life, but the role of acceptance of illness needs to be further investigated. The aim of the study was to evaluate the relationship between acceptance of illness and quality of life in patients with chronic nonmalignant pulmonary diseases. The study encompassed 200 patients of the mean age 58 ± 16 years who were mainly diagnosed with asthma (n = 72; 36%), COPD (n = 52; 26%), and obstructive sleep apnea (n = 38; 19%). The patients answered the Acceptance of Illness Scale (AIS) and the St. George’s Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ). Sociodemographical and clinical data were collected. The level of acceptance of illness significantly associated with each of the SGRQ domains. The greater the acceptance of illness, the lowest was the SGRQ score. The mean total score of SGRQ was 44.6 ± 24.9 and that of AIS was 26.1 ± 8.2. Higher AIS scores significantly associated with lower SGRQ scores, i.e., with better quality of life (p < 0.001 for each domain). We conclude that in patients with chronic nonmalignant pulmonary diseases, acceptance of illness plays an important role and is closely related to the general level of quality of life. Interventions aimed at improving acceptance of illness may be considered to improve quality of life.

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All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study was approved by the Bioethics Committee of Wroclaw Medical University in Poland (permit 32/2017).

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  1. Division of Surgical Specialties, Department of Clinical Nursing, Faculty of Health Science, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland

    Mariusz Chabowski, Jan Juzwiszyn & Zofia Bolanowska

  2. Department of Surgery, Fourth Military Teaching Hospital, Wroclaw, Poland

    Mariusz Chabowski

  3. Department of Pulmonology and Lung Cancer, Faculty of Postgraduate Medical Training, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland

    Anna Brzecka

  4. Department of Clinical Nursing, Faculty of Health Science, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland

    Beata Jankowska-Polańska

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Chabowski, M., Juzwiszyn, J., Bolanowska, Z., Brzecka, A., Jankowska-Polańska, B. (2019). Acceptance of Illness Associates with Better Quality of Life in Patients with Nonmalignant Pulmonary Diseases. In: Pokorski, M. (eds) Advances in Biomedicine. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology(), vol 1176. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/5584_2019_386

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