‘It helps my anxiety because I’m managing my breathlessness’: a qualitative exploration of anxiety and breathlessness in patients with advanced chronic respiratory disease receiving specialist palliative care
Lucy Bleazard, Kate Walker, Sue Ashton, Christina Faull · 2026
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Lucy Bleazard, Kate Walker, Sue Ashton, and Christina Faull explore how anxiety and breathlessness feed each other in this 2026 study. Their participants had advanced lung disease and received specialist palliative care at two hospice sites. Eleven people gave in-depth interviews about daily life with both symptoms.
Three themes emerged. Breathlessness felt creeping, frightening, and limiting. Anxiety carried a heavy physical side and grew with outside life stress. Above all, the two locked into a circle: each one fired the other, and patients could not pry them apart. People leaned on drug-free tactics that calmed both at once. The authors call for whole-person support in non-cancer lung disease.
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| CREATOR | Lucy Bleazard, Kate Walker, Sue Ashton, Christina Faull |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 36 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |