The Relationship Between Kinesiophobia, Physical Activity Level and Quality of Life in Asthma Patients

Launched by MARMARA UNIVERSITY · Nov 27, 2019

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Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by increased airway sensitivity to various stimuli and reversible airway obstruction (Soyuer et al., 2013). Bronchial hypersensitivity associated with chronic airway inflammation causes wheezing, dyspnea, chest tightness, and cough attacks, especially at midnight or morning. These attacks are associated with varying degrees of airway obstruction and usually improve with treatment or spontaneously (Arslan, 2011). Three mechanisms are responsible for the pathogenesis of asthma. These include reversible airway obstruction, airway inflammat...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Being 18-65 years old T
• • Turkish reading, writing, understanding
• • Volunteering to participate in the research
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Having communication problems, not being cooperative, having a psychiatric diagnosis or using medication
• • Severe comorbid diseases (heart, respiratory, gastrointestinal, neurological diseases) that may cause movement limitation.