Livskvalitet hos vuxna patienter med astma
Background: Quality of life is a concept of individual meaning which is perceived differently depending on the person experiencing it. To have a chronic disease in the lung, such as asthma, has an effect on the quality of life. Asthma affects people of all ages. It is a disease that causes a constriction in the patients? airways which leads to a feeling of suffocation which in turn produces a feeling of anxiety.Aim: The purpose is to illuminate which factors affect the quality of life in adult patients with asthma.Method: This is a literary review based on ten articles, both quantitative and qualitative, from four different continents. The articles were found in the databases Cinahl, PubMed, Medline and Academic Search Premier.Results: There were many factors affecting the quality of life in patients with asthma. Six categories emerged from the analysis; demographic factors, physical difficulties, treatment and environment and the inner were mental difficulties and knowledge and communication.Discussion: The most prominent factor in relation to quality of life was the existence of non-wanted symptoms. The symptoms the patients experienced were among other things caused by a lack of knowledge. Dorothea Orems "theory of self-care" was used in parts of the discussion and it was revealed that barriers to knowledge were for the patient an obstacle to self-care.