Open AccessThe Relationship Between Anxiety, Depression and Treatment Adherence in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Systematic Review
Author(s) -
Eleonora Volpato,
Stefania Toniolo,
Francesco Pagnini,
Paolo Banfi
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease/international journal of copd
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1178-2005
pISSN - 1176-9106
DOI - 10.2147/copd.s313841
Subject(s) - medicine , copd , anxiety , psycinfo , cochrane library , depression (economics) , systematic review , medline , critical appraisal , meta analysis , data extraction , psychological intervention , physical therapy , scopus , psychiatry , alternative medicine , pathology , political science , law , economics , macroeconomics
Almost half of the people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) do not adhere to the prescribed treatments and report anxiety and depression as comorbidities, resulting in higher rates of exacerbations, hospitalizations, and worse clinical outcomes.