LCQ LCQ Social Domain 1 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which of the following activities is directly assessed in the LCQ social domain?
- Sleep quality
- Ability to work or carry out daily activities (Correct answer)
- Chest pain severity
- Level of anxiety
Correct answer: Ability to work or carry out daily activities
Impact on work and daily activities is a core social domain item in the LCQ, reflecting how cough disrupts functional participation.
Question 2: Avoiding social gatherings because of coughing is captured in which LCQ domain?
- Physical domain
- Psychological domain
- Social domain (Correct answer)
- Not assessed by LCQ
Correct answer: Social domain
Avoidance of social situations due to coughing is a social participation item captured in the LCQ social domain.
Question 3: A patient who stops attending religious services because they fear coughing during the service would have this captured in which LCQ domain?
- Physical domain
- Psychological domain
- Social domain (Correct answer)
- It would not be captured
Correct answer: Social domain
Avoidance of public or communal activities such as religious services due to coughing is a social domain impact.
Question 4: Interference with a patient's job performance due to coughing is assessed in the LCQ social domain because:
- Work is a physiological need
- Employment is a key social role and participation context (Correct answer)
- Work performance is unrelated to cough
- Employment data is required for billing purposes
Correct answer: Employment is a key social role and participation context
Work represents a primary social role; disruption of job performance by coughing reflects impaired social participation captured in the social domain.
Question 5: The social domain of the LCQ contains how many items?
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6 (Correct answer)
Correct answer: 6
The LCQ social domain contains 6 items covering impacts on work, social activities, relationships, public activities, and interpersonal interactions.
Question 6: A patient who avoids going to the cinema or theater because of fear of coughing would score closest to which value on the relevant social domain item?
- 7 (never avoids)
- 1 (always avoids) (Correct answer)
- 5 (rarely avoids)
- 4 (sometimes avoids)
Correct answer: 1 (always avoids)
If the patient always avoids this activity, the item score would be 1 (all of the time), reflecting maximum social domain impairment.
LCQ LCQ Social Domain 1
Which of the following activities is directly assessed in the LCQ social domain?