TY - JOUR
T1 - The dyspnea experience
T2 - nociceptive properties and a model for research and practice.
AU - Steele, B.
AU - Shaver, J.
PY - 1992/9
Y1 - 1992/9
N2 - Dyspnea has been defined as the unpleasant sensation of difficult breathing and the reaction to that sensation. Dyspnea research, however, has largely used a unidimensional, sensory model of dyspnea devoid of the affective and motivational dimensions that uniquely characterize this sensation in clinical populations. Dyspnea might be more comprehensively viewed as a nociceptive phenomenon which, like pain, has affective dimensions expressed as distress in response to aversiveness. A multidimensional, ecologic model of the dyspnea experience is presented that incorporates nociceptive sensation properties and is suggestive of new directions for dyspnea research uniquely relevant to nursing science.
AB - Dyspnea has been defined as the unpleasant sensation of difficult breathing and the reaction to that sensation. Dyspnea research, however, has largely used a unidimensional, sensory model of dyspnea devoid of the affective and motivational dimensions that uniquely characterize this sensation in clinical populations. Dyspnea might be more comprehensively viewed as a nociceptive phenomenon which, like pain, has affective dimensions expressed as distress in response to aversiveness. A multidimensional, ecologic model of the dyspnea experience is presented that incorporates nociceptive sensation properties and is suggestive of new directions for dyspnea research uniquely relevant to nursing science.
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U2 - 10.1097/00012272-199209000-00009
DO - 10.1097/00012272-199209000-00009
M3 - Article
C2 - 1519912
AN - SCOPUS:0026915382
SN - 0161-9268
VL - 15
SP - 64
EP - 76
JO - ANS. Advances in nursing science
JF - ANS. Advances in nursing science
IS - 1
ER -