Dream Analysis in COPD Patients

"Each of the dreams was classified according to its thematic content (e.g., being involved in a chase, flying through the air, falling, being lost, losing one's teeth, drowning) in order to in a chase, flying through the air, falling, being lost, losing teeth, drowning) in order to determine the most determine the most frequent themes emerging from our sample. The instrument used used to carry out this classification is the Typical Dream Questionnaire of Zadra and Nielsen (1999), which has been validated with more than 600 patients suffering from sleep disorders and and 1200 adults (Nielsen et al., 1999; 2003)."

"The HAD scale is an instrument that screens for anxiety and depressive disorders. It includes 14 items rated from 0 to 3. Seven questions relate to anxiety (total A) and seven others to the depressive dimension (total D).~two scores (maximum score for each score = 21)."

The patient is asked to write down in a notebook every morning the description of the dreams made during the night and to comment on it if necessary