[Do asthmatic patients have deficits in symptom perception? Quasi-experimental and experimental findings on introception of airway obstruction].
Symptom perception of asthmatic patients was investigated in a quasi-experimental and in two experimental studies. Simultaneous ratings and measurements of airways obstruction assessed during an inhalative provocation test were correlated in the first study, in the two latter studies psychophysical parameters of the perception of external flow-resistive loads were determined for asthmatic patients and normal controls. These are the main results: 1. Most of the asthmatic patients are rather poor in discriminating provoked airways obstructions which results in a negative coping with the illness. 2. Asthmatic patients are slightly poorer in discriminating flow-resistive loads than healthy controls. 3. A distinct tendency of asthmatic patients to dissimulation found in the first study could not be confirmed in the two experiments.
Dahme
B
B
Psychologisches Institut III, Universität Hamburg.
König
R
R
Nussbaum
B
B
Richter
R
R
D000328:Adult; D000403:Airway Resistance; D001143:Arousal; D001249:Asthma / Q000523:psychology*; D001364:Awareness; D001985:Bronchial Provocation Tests; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008173:Lung Diseases, Obstructive / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D012803:Sick Role
Haben Asthmatiker Defizite in der Symptomwahrnehmung? Quasi-experimentelle und experimentelle Befunde zur Interozeption der Atemwegsobstruktion.