The Association Between Depression, Lung Function, and Health-Related Quality of Life Among Adults With Cystic Fibrosis.

The article reports on the connection between lung function, depression, and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among adults with cystic fibrosis (CF). It is posed that more than 40 percent of people born with CF now reached adulthood. In this study, the Beck Depression Inventory and the Cystic Fibrosis Questionnaire were employed to assess depressive symptoms and the HRQoL of 76 adults who were taken as subjects of the research.