Prevalence of alexithymia and its association with anxiety and depression in a sample of Greek chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) outpatients |
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| Authors: | Athanasios Tselebis Epaminondas Kosmas Dionisios Bratis Georgios Moussas Athanasios Karkanias Ioannis Ilias Nikolaos Siafakas Alexandros Vgontzas Nikolaos Tzanakis |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Psychiatric Department, Sotiria General Hospital of Chest Diseases, Athens, Greece;(2) Pulmonary Rehabilitation Centre, Sotiria General Hospital of Chest Diseases, Athens, Greece;(3) Endocrine Department, Elena Venizelou Hospital, Athens, Greece;(4) Department of Thoracic Medicine, University of Crete, Medical School, Heraklion, Greece;(5) Psychiatric Department, University of Crete, Medical School, Heraklion, Greece;(6) Departement of Social Medicine, Laboratory of Epidemiology, University of Crete, Medical School, Heraklion, Greece |
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Background Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a major health problem, especially in adults over 40 years of age, and has a great social and economic impact. The psychological morbidity of COPD patients with regard to anxiety and depressive symptoms has been extensively studied in the past. However, few studies have investigated the prevalence of alexithymia in these patients, as well as its association with this comorbidity. Based on this fact, we studied the prevalence of alexithymia and its association with anxiety and depressive symptoms in COPD outpatients. |
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