Respiratory Medicine
Volume 95, Issue 1 , Pages 37-39, January 2001

Psychological disorder in asthma is associated with poor control and poor adherence to inhaled steroids

  • S. CLULEY

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychotherapy, Leeds, Guy’s Hospital, London, U.K.
    • Correspondence should be addressed to: Dr S. Cluley, Department of Psychotherapy, 40 Clarendon Road, Leeds, LS2 9PJ, U.K. Fax: +44 (0) 113 295 5431.
    • ,
  • G.M. COCHRANE

      Affiliations

    • Department of Allergies and Respiratory Medicine, Guy’s Hospital, London, U.K.

Received 4 September 2000; accepted 15 September 2000.

Abstract 

Previous studies have linked psychological morbidity to poor control of asthma, but have not objectively measured adherence to treatment, and have linked poor adherence to depression, but have not measured asthma severity. This study assessed asthma and psychological morbidity and objectively measured adherence to medication and showed that psychological morbidity in those with asthma is significantly increased when control of asthma is poor, especially when control is poor and adherence to inhaled steroid regimen is low.

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PII: S0954-6111(00)90968-5

doi:10.1053/rmed.2000.0968

Respiratory Medicine
Volume 95, Issue 1 , Pages 37-39, January 2001

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