慢性咳嗽对生活质量的影响

Impact of chronic cough on quality of life

慢性咳嗽可以对患者的生理、心理和社会生活产生严重影响，医师能轻易发现慢性咳嗽对患者生理方面的并发症，而患者在心理和社会生活方面的影响却往往被忽视。近年来，国外一些学者陆续研究制定了咳嗽特异性生活质量问卷、Leicester咳嗽问卷和慢性咳嗽影响问卷等与咳嗽相关的生活质量问卷，用于评价咳嗽的严重度和咳嗽的治疗效果。

Chronic cough would have serious impact on the patients＇ physical and psychological health,as well as the quality of their social life. The physical complications of cough can be easily diagnosed by chronic cough. However, the psychological and social symptoms are often overlooked. In recent years, there are some questionnaires, such as cough-specific quality of life questionnaire, Leicester cough questionnaire, chronic cough impact questionnaire, which have been worked out for evaluating the severity of cough and the effect of cough treatment.