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Improving quality of life in depressed COPD patients: Effectiveness of a minimal psychological intervention

Author: Lamers, F. Country/countries: Netherlands Number of patients participating in the study: 187 This study was focused on patients living with COPD
Intervention analysed in the study: Usual Care Plus Intervention components: UCP
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Setting of implementation: N/A Professionals delivering the intervention: N/A Targeted self-management behaviours: N/A
Intervention analysed in the study: Monitoring, action-based and emotional-based behavioural techniques Intervention components: E+MT+AB+EB
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Setting of implementation: Home-care Professionals delivering the intervention: Nurses Targeted self-management behaviours: Handling /managing emotions

Outcomes measured in the study

Outcome Measure Tool
Coping with the disease, including depression and anxiety Depression Beck's Depression Inventory (BDI and BDI-II)
Coping with the disease, including depression and anxiety Anxiety Symptom Checklist-90 (SCL-90) Anxiety domain
Qualiy of life Quality of life (specific-disease instruments) N/A

Patient characteristics

Age: 71.0 years (+/- a standard deviation of 6.7) Gender: 75 females Time since diagnosis of COPD: N/A Severity of the disease: N/A Multi-morbidity: N/A
  • Number of co-morbidities: 1.0

Level of health literacy: N/A
  • Tool: N/A

Socio-economic characteristics: N/A

Risk of Bias of this study

Outcome Random sequence generation Allocation concealment Blinding performance Blinding detection objective outcomes assessment Attrition incomplete outcome Incorrect statistical methods Recruitment bias Selective outcome reporting
Coping with the disease, including depression and anxiety - Anxiety
Coping with the disease, including depression and anxiety - Depression
Qualiy of life - Quality of life (specific-disease instruments)

Other publications associated with this study

A Minimal Psychological Intervention in Chronically Ill Elderly Patients with Depression: A Randomized Trial Link: 10.1159/000313690 Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a minimal psychological intervention to reduce non-severe depression in chronically ill elderly patients: the design of a randomised controlled trial Link: 10.1186/1471-2458-6-161. Development and feasibility of a nurse administered strategy on depression in communitydwelling patients with a chronic physical disease Link: 10.1016/S0738-3991(03)00201-5