Psychosocial factors (fears about function, inability to carry out normal tasks such as walking or feeding).
Existential or spiritual factors (interference with respiratory function carries implication of immenent death, fear of suffocation).
It is important to remember that there is only limited correlation between the observation of disordered breathing (for example tachypnoea) and the experience of dyspnoea. Breathing can be unpleasant without being abnormal, and can be abnormal without being unpleasant.
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Created 18 Jul 2013 - Archived
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Last modified 29 Mar 2024