Abstract
Health-related quality of life defines the quality of life associated with health status, disease, and its treatment. In the last decades, there has been an increasing number of people living with chronic respiratory diseases and severe symptoms that limit daily life activities. An improvement in quality of life can be assessed by questionnaires and should be a primary treatment outcome.
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Abbreviations
- ACQ:
-
Asthma Control Questionnaire
- ACT:
-
Asthma Control Test
- AQLQ:
-
Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire
- CAT:
-
COPD Assessment Test
- CCQ:
-
COPD Control Questionnaire
- COPD:
-
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
- CRQ:
-
Chronic Respiratory Questionnaire
- CRQ-SAS:
-
Chronic Respiratory Questionnaire Self-Administered Standardized Format
- FEV1:
-
Forced expiratory volume in 1 second
- GOLD:
-
Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease
- HRQoL:
-
Health-Related Quality of Life
- mMRC:
-
Modified Medical Research Council
- NCF:
-
Non-cystic fibrosis
- QOL-B:
-
Quality of Life Questionnaire-Bronchiectasis
- SGRQ:
-
St. George’s Respiratory Questionnaire
- SMAS-30:
-
Self-Management Ability Scale 30
- SRIQ:
-
Severe Respiratory Insufficiency Questionnaire
- WHO:
-
World Health Organization
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Cabrita, B., Gonçalves, G., Cabrita, A., Dias, S. (2021). Quality of Life in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases. In: Esquinas, A.M. (eds) Pulmonary Function Measurement in Noninvasive Ventilatory Support. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76197-4_43
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