@article{Roka_Aryal_Ghimire_Pradhan_Aryal_2018, title={Anxiety and Depression Among Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients in A Tertiary Care Hospital, Nepal}, volume={6}, url={https://jkmc.com.np/ojs3/index.php/journal/article/view/530}, abstractNote={<p><strong>Background: </strong>Psychiatric co-morbidities such as anxiety and depression among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbate the disease, prolong the hospital stay, increase the disease symptoms and deter the quality of life.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To assess the proportion of anxiety or depression among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in a tertiary care hospital.</p><p><strong>Methodology: </strong>We carried out a cross sectional study interviewing 307 patients from a tertiary care hospital using sequential sampling technique. We used structured questionnaire and included hospital anxiety and depression scale to measure anxiety and depression. We considered a summed score of }, number={4}, journal={Journal of Kathmandu Medical College}, author={Roka, Tara and Aryal, Nirmala and Ghimire, Anjana and Pradhan, Subhadra and Aryal, Krishna Kumar}, year={2018}, month={Jun.}, pages={129–135} }