Prevalence of psychomorbidity among patients with chronic cough 英文参考文献.docVIP

Cough BioMedCentral Research Open Access Prevalence of psychomorbidity among patients with chronic cough Lorcan PA McGarvey*1, Carol Carton2, Lucy A Gamble2, Liam G Heaney1, Richard Shepherd1, Madeline Ennis3 and Joseph MacMahon1 Address: 1Department of Respiratory Medicine, Belfast City Hospital, N. Ireland, UK, 2Department of Clinical Psychology, Belfast City Hospital, N. Ireland, UK and 3Department of Clinical Biochemistry, The Queens University of Belfast, N. Ireland, UK Email: Lorcan PA McGarvey* - l.mcgarvey@qub.ac.uk; Carol Carton - c.carton@bch.n-i.nhs.uk; Lucy A Gamble - l.gamble@bch.n-i.nhs.uk; Liam G Heaney - l.heaney@qub.ac.uk; Richard Shepherd - r.shepherd@bch.n-i.nhs.uk; Madeline Ennis - m.ennis@qub.ac.uk; Joseph MacMahon - j.macmahon@bch.n-i.nhs.uk * Corresponding author Published: 16 June 2006 Received: 24 March 2006 Accepted: 16 June 2006 Cough 2006, 2:4 doi:10.1186/1745-9974-2-4 This article is available from: /content/2/1/4 ? 2006 McGarvey et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Chronic cough may cause significant emotional distress and although patients are not routinely assessed for co-existent psychomorbidity, a cough that is refractory to any treatment is sometimes suspected to be functional in origin. It is not known if patients with chronic cough referred for specialist evaluation have emotional impairment but failure to recognise this may influence treatment outcomes. In this cross-sectional study, levels of psychomorbidity were measured in patients referred to a specialist cough clinic. Methods: Fifty-seven patients (40 female), mean age 47.5 (14.3) years referred for specialist evaluation of chronic cough (mean cough