The purpose of the study is to learn more about breathlessness that people encounter in everyday life, whether from exercise or from lung diseases, like asthma and emphysema.
People have a wide range of experience with breathing and breathlessness.
By better understanding these experiences through this study with approximately 300 people, nurses, doctors and other health care providers can improve care and develop new programs to help people with breathlessness. Dr. Paula Meek, a nurse researcher and faculty member for the University of Arizona College of Nursing builds on her prior research in pursuing this study funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research, part of the federal National Institutes of Health.