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Psychological assessment of respiratory patients often necessitates an understanding of their attitudes towards respiratory disease and hospitalization. The Respiratory Illness Opinion Survey (RIOS) is a 78 item questionnaire, which explores six attitude dimensions regarding respiratory illness and hospitalization, namely: 1) Optimism; 2) Specific Internal Awareness; 3) External Control; 4) Negative Staff Regard; 5) Psychological Stigma; and 6) Authoritarian Attitudes. However, as the current form of RIOS presents some limitations with regard to its length and complexity, we decided to review and shorten it with the aim of facilitating administration. Eighty eight hospitalized patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) (mean age 59 yrs) completed the RIOS. Factor analyses were carried out to identify the principal components, and to verify psychometric validity. Results indicate that the RIOS can be used after being reduced to 31 items, without substantially altering its original factorial structure.
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PMID:Respiratory Illness Opinion Survey: a short form for COPD patients. 804 5

Transcultural consultations are becoming commonplace. Such consultations arise because patients from ethnic groups consult doctors, but also because patients consult doctors from other ethnic backgrounds. Such consultations require a cultural awareness and sensitivity which may be particularly necessary when concerning those with respiratory illnesses which are often long-term and about which there may be considerable stigma. The prevalence of respiratory disease can vary between ethnic groups, most noticeably in tuberculosis and smoking; and in diseases such as asthma, health service usage and treatment can vary significantly with ethnicity. Some of this may represent cultural, rather than disease specific differences. Good communication is essential throughout medical practice, but in transcultural consultations it is especially important that the doctor pays appropriate attention to likely patient beliefs and approaches to shared decision making. Usual negotiation regarding goals and outcomes first requires the clinician to understand how a patient's understanding of illness may vary from a traditional western scientific approach. Special attention needs to be paid to the optimal way of using interpreters and more time is often needed for crosscultural consultations. Specific training is necessary for health practitioners to enable them to acquire the skills for crosscultural care and this involves learning about other cultures and an appreciation of how a change in attitude often needs to be incorporated into the clinical approach. Acquiring these skills and understandings to facilitate optimal transcultural consultation enables transfer of these skills to other similar clinical scenarios such as the approach to those with disability. The global burden of long-term respiratory disease, both infectious and noncommunicable, coupled with increased migration and geographical mobility means that a successful crosscultural approach is now a priority area for attention.
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PMID:Crosscultural communication in those with airway diseases. 1628 57

Respiratory diseases are common in older people. However, the impact of comorbid depression in older patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma has not been fully explored. This narrative review examines the impact of comorbid depression and its management in COPD and asthma in older adults. The causes of depression in patients with COPD and asthma are multifactorial and include physical, physiological and behavioural factors. Depression is associated with hospital readmission in older adults with asthma and COPD. We focus on the most current literature that has examined the efficacy of pulmonary rehabilitation (PR), cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and antidepressant drug therapy for patients with depression in the context of COPD and asthma. Our findings indicate that PR and CBT are beneficial in improving depressive symptoms and quality of life in short-term intervention studies. However, the long-term efficacy of CBT and PR is unknown. To date, the efficacy of antidepressant drug therapy for depression in patients with COPD and asthma is inconclusive. In addition, there has been no clear evidence that antidepressants can induce remission of depression or ameliorate dyspnoea or physiological indices of COPD. Factors that contribute to 'inadequate' assessment and treatment of depression in patients with COPD and asthma may include misconception of the disease by patients and their caregivers and stigma attached to depression. Thus, well-controlled randomized controlled trials are needed.
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PMID:The impact of depression in older patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma. 2762 Dec 32

People with serious mental illness (SMI) are more likely to experience severe health conditions, such as cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease and stroke, and are likely to die earlier, than the general population. This article explores the reasons for such disparities, using a case study approach to outline the ways that general nurses can support people with SMI when they access general healthcare services. It identifies five areas of learning from the case study: diagnostic overshadowing and stigma; developing the therapeutic relationship; the ward environment; inclusion of family members and carers; and integration of physical and mental health services.
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PMID:Supporting patients with serious mental illness during physical health treatment. 3146 99