Predictive validity of short-form health survey [36 items] scales for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbation

Parshall, Mark B.; Mapel, Douglas W.; Rice, Leanne; Williams, Angela; O’Reilly, John

doi:10.1016/j.hrtlng.2007.09.007

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“…The impact of rTMS may not only relieve the symptoms of MDD, but also affects other relevant psychosocial domains measured by HRQoL, which may in turn influence mood improvement. In accordance with this hypothesis, recent studies have shown HRQoL to be a prognostic factor associated with clinical outcome in various chronic diseases [54,55]. These findings may provide a support to integrate HRQoL in clinical practice, as complementary information to that traditionally collected in psychiatry.…”

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Improvement of health-related quality of life in depression after transcranial magnetic stimulation in a naturalistic trial is associated with decreased perfusion in precuneus

Dumas

Richieri

Guedj

et al. 2012

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

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BackgroundAssessing Health-related Quality of life (HRQoL) is necessary to evaluate care and treatments provided to patients with major depressive disorder (MDD), in addition to the traditional assessment of clinical outcomes. However, HRQoL remains under-utilized to assess the effectiveness of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in research or in a routine clinical setting. The primary objective of this exploratory study on MDD was to investigate the impact of low-frequency rTMS on HRQoL using the SF-36 questionnaire. A secondary objective was to study the functional neural substrate underlying HRQoL changes using neuroimaging.MethodsFifteen right-handed patients who met DSM-IV criteria for MDD participated in the study. HRQoL was assessed using the SF-36, and regional cerebral blood (rCBF) flow using 99mTc-ECD-SPECT. Voxel based correlation was searched between concomitant changes in rCBF and in HRQoL after rTMS.ResultsRole-Physical Problems dimension showed a statistical significant improvement of 73.2% (p = 0.001) and an effect size (Cohen’s d) of 0.43, indicating moderate effect. Five SF-36 dimension scores and the two composite scores showed effect sizes ranged from 0.28 to 0.43. Improvement of Mental Composite Score (MCS)-SF-36 after rTMS was correlated with a concomitant decrease of precuneus perfusion (p < 0.001). Post-hoc analyses confirmed that decreased perfusion in precuneus was correlated with improvement of HRQoL, especially for MCS (r = −0.71; p < 0.001), Mental Health (r = −0.81; p < 0.001) and Social Functioning (r = −0.57; p = 0.026) dimensions.ConclusionsThis study suggests low-frequency rTMS can improve HRQoL, through its role-physical problems dimension, in patients with MDD. This improvement is associated with a decreased perfusion of the precuneus, a brain area involved in self-focus and self-processing, arguing for a neural substrate to the impact of rTMS on HRQoL.

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Improvement of health-related quality of life in depression after transcranial magnetic stimulation in a naturalistic trial is associated with decreased perfusion in precuneus

Dumas

Richieri

Guedj

et al. 2012

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

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“…The individual questionnaire questions concern 1) physical functioning, 2) role limitations due to physical problems, 3) bodily pain, 4) general health perception, 5) vitality, 6) social functioning (SF), 7) mental health (MH), and (8) role limitation due to emotional problems. 20 , 21 …”

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Sociodemographic and clinical factors affecting the quality of life of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Rosińczuk¹,

Przyszlak²,

Uchmanowicz³

2018

COPD

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BackgroundCOPD remains a significant challenge for contemporary medicine. It is one of the most common respiratory illnesses and leads to disability as well as deteriorating patient’s quality of life (QOL).ObjectiveThe objective of this study was to determine the impact of selected sociodemographic and clinical factors on QOL and level of illness acceptance (LIA) of patients with COPD.DesignThis study was a cross-sectional, prospective, observational study.Patients and methodsThe study involved 100 patients (34 women and 66 men) suffering from COPD for at least half a year, treated in the Allergology Clinic at the Department of Internal Medicine, Geriatrics and Allergy, Wroclaw Medical University in Poland. Standardized questionnaires such as Short Form-36 Health Survey, Saint George’s Respiratory Questionnaire, Acceptance of Illness Scale, and COPD Author’s Questionnaire were used to assess QOL and LIA.ResultsAmong the most significant results, there were no statistically significant differences between the patients’ sex and their QOL and LIA (P>0.05). It has been observed that with an increase in the age of patients, a statistically significant decrease in LIA is observed, especially after 60 years of age (P=0.001). It was found that the higher level of education of the patients was statistically significant in the higher QOL (P<0.05) and in the greater LIA (P<0.05). Interestingly, there was no statistically significant effect of active smoking and overweight on QOL and LIA (P>0.05).ConclusionSex of COPD patients does not affect their QOL or LIA, nonetheless, the age decreases the level of QOL and LIA. Higher education improves QOL scores; however, factors such as dyspnea, longer duration of illness, comorbidities, oxygen therapy undertaking, and family burden of respiratory disease affect deterioration of QOL.

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“…SF-36 has been validated for several disease conditions in Sri Lanka (17)(18). Its validity and reliability in relation to COPD patients has been proven by many studies (19)(20). The objective of this study was to describe the QOL and its associated factors among patients with COPD before and after an exacerbation in Western Province, Sri Lanka.…”

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Quality of life and its associated factors among patients with COPD before and after an exacerbation in Sri Lanka

Mahesh¹,

Gunathunga

Jayasinghe

et al. 2018

J Coll Community Phys Sri Lanka

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Background: With demographic and epidemiological transitions, the burden of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is rising in Sri Lanka. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is one main chronic NCD, the exacerbations of which are known to worsen the quality of life (QOL). Documented literature on the QOL of COPD patients is not commonly found in Sri Lanka and rarer on its exacerbations. Objective: To describe the QOL and its associated factors among patients with COPD before and after an exacerbation in Western Province of Sri Lanka Methods: A longitudinal study with two waves of data collection was done in 13 government hospitals among 289 participants in 2015. The study population included patients admitted to hospital with an exacerbation of COPD. Sample size was calculated to estimate the expected QOL in numerical scale with reference to documented global literature. The pre-exacerbation and post-discharge one month QOL was assessed using SF-36 generic QOL tool. Bivariate analysis was done followed by multivariate analysis. Results: In seven domains, there was a significant decline in QOL from pre-exacerbation to one month postdischarge (p<0.05). Further, pre-exacerbation QOL significantly correlated with post-discharge QOL in relation to five domains. Age (two domains), income (seven domains) and health infrastructure (seven domains) were significantly associated with their pre-exacerbation QOL. Younger age, higher income and better health-infrastructure are associated with relatively higher baseline. Older age, higher monthly income, better health infrastructure and less severity of the exacerbation were independent predictors of reduced QOL following an exacerbation. Conclusions: The QOL among COPD patients was relatively low compared to patients with other chronic NCDs such as myocardial infarction and stroke. The QOL in relation to several aspects worsened with exacerbations. Post-discharge QOL can be predicted with pre-exacerbation QOL for five domains of QOL.

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Predictive validity of short-form health survey [36 items] scales for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbation

Cited by 17 publications

References 31 publications

Improvement of health-related quality of life in depression after transcranial magnetic stimulation in a naturalistic trial is associated with decreased perfusion in precuneus

Improvement of health-related quality of life in depression after transcranial magnetic stimulation in a naturalistic trial is associated with decreased perfusion in precuneus

Sociodemographic and clinical factors affecting the quality of life of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Quality of life and its associated factors among patients with COPD before and after an exacerbation in Sri Lanka

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