Conclusion Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is a disease without a known cause or cure, which targets the lungs, causing a progressive decline in respiratory function and overall quality of life. These patients silently suffer, as PROMIS scale scores indicate that depression in these patients are comparable to those in people with major depressive disorder, fatigue that presents slightly worse than those of people with heart failure, sleep disturbances that compare to those with obstructive sleep apnea, and dyspnea severity significantly worse than those with COPD (Yount et al., 2016). With the limited interventions provided to these patients, there are great feelings of hopelessness. Admist a continuously declining health, these patients are
