Health‐related quality of life in Norwegian adults with Fabry disease: Disease severity, pain, fatigue and psychological distress

Autor: Charlotte von der Lippe, Trond Jenssen, Hege Pihlstrøm, Olga Solberg, Dag Olav Dahle, Ketil Heimdal, Per Mathisen, Mina Susanne Weedon-Fekjær, Solrun Sigurdardottir, Kristin Ørstavik, Birgitte Leisner Bjerkely
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: JIMD Reports
JIMD Reports, Vol 62, Iss 1, Pp 56-69 (2021)
ISSN: 2192-8312
2192-8304
Popis: Health‐related quality of life (HRQOL) is reduced in Fabry disease (FD) and associated with clinical disease manifestations, but few have used Fabry‐specific severity scores to study how disease burden interferes with quality of life. We investigated how the Fabry DS3, consisting of four somatic domains and one patient‐reported item, associates with HRQOL, while also evaluating fatigue, pain and psychological distress as possible predictors. Thirty‐six adults with FD completed the Short‐form Health Survey (SF‐36), the hospital anxiety and depression scale (HADS), the brief pain inventory (BPI) and reported fatigue on a visual analog scale. Clinical data were collected from the last multidisciplinary hospital visit. Using correlation and hierarchical linear regression analyses, we examined associations between demographic, clinical and self‐reported predictors and the SF‐36 physical (PCS) and mental (MCS) component summary scores. Males scored lower than the general population in all SF‐36 domains (P
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