The COPD Assessment Test (CAT) can screen for fatigue among patients with COPD | Zendy

Caroline Stridsman | Zendy; My Svensson | Zendy; Viktor Strandkvist | Zendy; Linnéa Hedman | Zendy; Helena Bäckman | Zendy; Anne Lindberg | Zendy

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The COPD Assessment Test (CAT) can screen for fatigue among patients with COPD

Author(s) -

Caroline Stridsman,

My Svensson,

Viktor Strandkvist,

Linnéa Hedman,

Helena Bäckman,

Anne Lindberg

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

therapeutic advances in respiratory disease

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.022

H-Index - 37

eISSN - 1753-4666

pISSN - 1753-4658

DOI - 10.1177/1753466618787380

Subject(s) - medicine , copd , spirometry , physical therapy , depression (economics) , quality of life (healthcare) , anxiety , confounding , population , asthma , psychiatry , nursing , environmental health , economics , macroeconomics

Fatigue was associated with respiratory symptoms, anxiety/depression and worse HRQoL when using the clinically useful instruments EQ-5D-VAS and CAT. The CAT-energy question can be used to screen for fatigue in clinical practice, using a cut-off of ⩾2.

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