期刊
JOURNAL OF THE NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES
卷 426, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2021.117437
关键词
Quality of life; Multiple sclerosis; Patient reported outcome measures; Fatigue; Disability; Self-efficacy
资金
- Biogen
- Merck
- Roche
- Sanofi Genzyme
- Teva
- Neurological Disability Fund [4530]
The study found that 91.2% of multiple sclerosis patients' quality of life can be explained by fatigue, disability, and self-efficacy, with age having an insignificant effect.
Background and objective: Quality of life in multiple sclerosis (MS) reflects complex relationships between symptoms (fatigue, spasticity pain, and bladder or vision dysfunction), disability, health perceptions, and selfefficacy. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, a self-report questionnaire pack of patient reported outcome measures was collected from 5695 people with MS (pwMS) alongside clinical data from their neurologists. Each patient reported outcome measure was converted to interval-scaled estimates following fit to the Rasch model. The patient reported outcome measures, as well as perceived health, age, disease subtype and gender, were then subject to path analysis to analyse their relationships with quality of life (QoL), guided by the Wilson and Clearly conceptual framework. Results: The final model explains 81.2% of the variance of QoL. Fatigue is clearly dominant, suggesting a means to intervene and improve QoL. The next most influential factors were disability and self-efficacy, which have similar effect levels. The model can be replicated for pwMS on disease modifying therapy and is largely invariant for gender and disease subtype. Age had an insignificant effect. Conclusions: In order to promote better QoL, MS care should include management of fatigue, interventions to ameliorate disability, and support to enhance self-efficacy. The range of skills needed for these treatments will require input from medical, nursing, therapy and psychology staff, so these findings provide evidence substantiating the need for pwMS to be provided with care by comprehensive multidisciplinary teams.
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