Negative visual representation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease occurs online

Freya Berenyi; Sara Booth; Anna Spathis; Natasha Smallwood

doi:10.1183/23120541.00549-2020

Negative visual representation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease occurs online

ERJ Open Res. 2020 Oct 5;6(4):00549-2020. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00549-2020. eCollection 2020 Oct.

Authors

Freya Berenyi¹, Sara Booth², Anna Spathis^{2

3}, Natasha Smallwood^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ Dept of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
² Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK.
³ Dept of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
⁴ Dept of Medicine (Royal Melbourne Hospital), University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Abstract

Internet images associated with breathlessness and COPD are mainly aimed at clinicians, more likely to be negative, and are gender and culturally exclusive compared with other cardiorespiratory conditions https://bit.ly/2DMfs0r.