Comprehensive pulmonary rehabilitation results in clinically meaningful improvements in anxiety and depression in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Purpose: Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) improves anxiety and depression in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. However, little is known regarding its ability to produce clinically meaningful improvements in these outcomes.

Methods: We retrospectively analyzed 366 patients who participated in our 8-week outpatient PR program.