Auto-evaluation of Dyspnea

Completed

• Conditions: Lung Diseases
• Interventions: Other: dyspnea

• Registration Number: NCT03598569
• Lead Sponsor: Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc- Université Catholique de Louvain

Brief Summary

The primary aim of this study was to compare patients-rated evaluation and caregiver's assessment of dyspnea with the standard tools in pulmonology unit (Borg scale and visual analog scale) and the secondary aim was to performed an analysis depending on the diseases (lung cancer vs. other lung diseases) and to verify the agreement between the evaluation between both visual analog scale and modified Borg scale.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2013-06
• Primary Completion: 2013-07
• Study Completion: 2013-12
• Status Verified: 2018-06
• Study First Submitted: 2018-07-15
• Study First Submitted QC: 2018-07-15
• Last Update Submitted: 2018-07-15
• Study First Posted: 2018-07-26
• Last Update Posted: 2018-07-26

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Not specified
• Target Recruitment: 271

Inclusion Criteria

• age ≥18 and
• to have a diagnosis of acute or chronic respiratory disease

Exclusion Criteria

• mental or cognitive disorders
• inability to understand the local language

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
other lung diseases	dyspnea	-
lung cancer	dyspnea	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
visual analog scale	3 seconds
borg scale	3 seconds

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc; 🇧🇪 Brussels, Belgium