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The Experience of Shame in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

G. Tzitzikos ,
K. Gourgoulianis ,
E. Kotrotsiou ,
K. Bonotis ,
M. Gouva ,
S. Kotrotsiou  and
T. Paralikas
G. Tzitzikos
Affiliation:
Medicine, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece
K. Gourgoulianis
Affiliation:
Medicine, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece
E. Kotrotsiou
Affiliation:
Nursing Postgraduate Program in Primary Health Care Research Laboratory of Care, University of Applied Sciences of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece
K. Bonotis
Affiliation:
Medicine, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece
M. Gouva
Affiliation:
Nursing Research Laboratory Psychology of Patients Families and Health Professionals, University of Applied Sciences of Epirus, Ioannina, Greece
S. Kotrotsiou
Affiliation:
Nursing Postgraduate Program in Primary Health Care, University of Applied Sciences of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece
T. Paralikas
Affiliation:
Nursing Postgraduate Program in Primary Health Care, University of Applied Sciences of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

Abstract

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Introduction

It is reported in global literature that Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) may cause a wide range of psychological effects, some of them not fully explored. The aim of this study is to investigate if patients with COPD experience intense feelings of shame.

Objectives

To find differences in shame experience between males and females, and if there is a correlation of shame with other socio-economic factors.

Method

Using the “Experience of Shame Scale” questionnaire (ESS) in 191 patients with COPD (104 men and 87 women) treated in Primary Health Care services in Greece.

Results

Statistical analysis showed relatively low scores (M 39.5 sd 14.9) for the experience of shame in COPD patients. There is no statistically significant difference of shame for marital status, education level or disease stage. Statistically significant difference shown between males and females (bodily shame P: 0.001, total shame P: 0.031), and between smokers and those who quit smoking. (characterological shame: P: 0.007 behavioral shame P: 0.030, total shame P: 0.009). Also statistically significant difference appears for bodily shame among Body Mass Index (BMI) groups (P: 009) and economic status of the patients (P: 0.008).

Conclusions

Patients with COPD seem to have not heavy burden with experience of shame. Any associations of shame with some patient groups are rather expected for cultural and social reasons.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
e-Poster Walk: Psychopathology and Psychotherapy
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 41 , Issue S1: Abstract of the 25th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2017 , pp. S264
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017
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