COPD depicted – patients drawing their lungs

Figures & data

Table 1 B-IPQ scores

B-IPQ item	Average score (n=100 patients with COPD)
How much does your illness affect your life? (“0” no effects at all – severely affects my life “10”)	5.03
How long do you think your illness will continue? (“0” a very short time – forever “10”)	9.42
How much control do you feel you have over your illness? (“0” absolutely no control – extreme amount of control “10”)	6.17
How much do you think your treatment can help your illness? (“0” not at all – extremely helpful “10”)	6.95
How much do you experience symptoms from your illness? (“0” no symptoms at all – many severe symptoms “10”)	5.52
How concerned are you about your illness? (“0” not at all concerned – extremely concerned “10”)	5.03
How well do you feel you understand your illness? (“0” don’t understand at all – understand very clearly “10”)	7.54
How much does your illness affect you emotionally (eg, does it make you angry, scared, upset, or depressed?) (“0” not at all affected emotionally – extremely affected emotionally “10”)	4.43

Abbreviation: B-IPQ, Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire.

Figure 1 Examples of patients’ drawings.

Notes: (A) Anatomically correct; (B) absence of knowledge; (C) symbolic representation; (D) unstructured representation. Text in 26: “capacity 60% compared to someone of my age with healthy lungs”; in 37: “no idea”; in 56: “these have died”.