Open AccessAssessment of psychiatric co-morbidities in patient of bronchial asthma attending a tertiary medical centre (Multicentric study)
Author(s) -
Devendra Kumar Singh,
Ankit Mehrotra,
Sanjeev Anand,
Gajendra Singh,
Ashutosh Gupta,
Santosh Kumar
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of family medicine and primary care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7135
pISSN - 2249-4863
DOI - 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1331_20
Subject(s) - medicine , asthma , depression (economics) , psychiatry , pediatrics , observational study , economics , macroeconomics
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory condition, which is associated with increase in airway hyper responsiveness that leads to recurrent episodes of wheezing, breathlessness, chest tightness and coughing. Asthma is a very common respiratory illness, in which some of the disease related factors may increases the vulnerability to psychiatric disorders. This study was done to determine the prevalence of psychiatric co-morbidity in patients of bronchial asthma.