Cited by 463Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) ResearchCardiac Health and Mental HealthAnxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes

Depression and anxiety in patients with COPD

Open access
Yohannes, Abebaw M., Alexopoulos, George S.·2014·European Respiratory Review

Abstract

Under-recognised and untreated depression and anxiety symptoms have deleterious effects on physical functioning and social interaction increasing fatigue and healthcare utilisation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Depression and anxiety are challenging to identify and treat because their symptoms often overlap with those of COPD. The cause(s) of depression and anxiety symptoms are multifactorial and include behavioural, social and biological factors. Less than one-third of COPD patients with comorbid depression or anxiety symptoms are receiving appropriate treatment. Factors that contribute to the lack of provision of treatment are varied, they include patient perceived barriers, for example lack of knowledge and reluctance to receive antidepressant drug therapy; poor treatment compliance and lack of a standardised diagnostic approach; and scarcity of adequate resources for mental health treatment. The evidence for the efficacy of antidepressant drug therapy in patients with COPD with comorbid depression and anxiety is inconclusive. There are some promising findings regarding pulmonary rehabilitation, psychological therapy and the collaborative care model in reducing depression and anxiety symptoms in patients with COPD, but these findings are limited by short-term follow-up periods. Further work is required to examine the efficacy of these interventions in randomised controlled trials with larger samples and long-term follow-up.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1183/09059180.00007813

Cites

24 of 24 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Only a few studies have paid attention to adherence to NIV in COPD people, and most focused only on early NIV failure or quantification of adherence.

    “Nevertheless, only a few studies have paid attention to adherence to NIV in COPD people, and most of them have focused only on early NIV failure (33,34) or on the quantification of adherence (35).”

    From Promoting Acceptance and Adherence to Noninvasive Ventilation in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Randomized Controlled Trial. (2022) · cites this paper as [35]

    The Introduction discusses reduced treatment adherence in COPD, and ‘What are the treatment options?’ discusses adherence to antidepressants. Neither passage addresses adherence to noninvasive ventilation (NIV), early NIV failure, or studies quantifying NIV adherence; searches for those terms found no such passage in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.77)

    Experimental — accuracy not yet measured

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Yohannes, A. M., & Alexopoulos, G. S.
Affiliations
Manchester Metropolitan University (GB)
Corresponding author
Yohannes, Abebaw M.
Venue
European Respiratory Review
Published
2014-08-31
Volume
23
Issue
133
Pages
345-349
ISSN
  • 0905-9180 (ISSN-L)
  • 1600-0617
OpenAlex
W2122570705
Cited by
463
References
24
Citations by year
2026: 36 · 2025: 55 · 2024: 53 · 2023: 54 · 2022: 52 · 2021: 51 · 2020: 46 · 2019: 36 · 2018: 32 · 2017: 23 · 2016: 15 · 2015: 9 · 2014: 1
FWCI
12.81
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • European Respiratory Review (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH076829, P30MH085943)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine › Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Cardiac Health and Mental Health
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
Keywords
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, depression, anxiety, comorbidities, antidepressant treatment, barriers to treatment, medication adherence, pulmonary rehabilitation, psychotherapy, collaborative care, mental health services
MeSH terms
Anxiety, Depression, Humans, Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review