NCT01823627

Pulmonary Disease in a Psychiatric Inpatient Population

Pulmonary Disease in a Psychiatric Inpatient Population, a Screening Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 46 (actual)
• Sponsor: Psykiatrien Syd · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Purpose: Patients with mental health disorders have a reduced life expectancy, compared to the general population. The shorter life expectancy is caused by natural and unnatural death. In general, patients with a mental disorder tend to have a more unhealthy lifestyle, than the general population, characterized by e.g. lack of exercise and smoking. Hypothesis Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is underdiagnosed in psychiatric inpatients There is a higher prevalence of COPD in psychiatric inpatients compared to the general population Screening of patients with one respiratory symptom and a smoking history, has the same sensitivity regarding to diagnosis of COPD, as screening all patients with a smoking history Method: 80 psychiatric inpatients will undergo spirometry with reversibility test and COPD Assessment Test (CATest). Furthermore, patient history regarding respiratory symptoms and smoking will be taken into account.

Conditions

• Chronic Obstructive Airway Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Spirometry with reversibility test	Spirometry with reversibility test and CATest questionaire. following will be measured FEV1 L/s FVC L/s FEV1/FVC ration

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-03-01
• Primary completion: 2013-06-01
• Completion: 2013-07-01
• First posted: 2013-04-04
• Last updated: 2018-05-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark