Onandia-Hinchado, Iban and Díaz-Orueta, Unai (2019) Health related quality of life in individuals with cognitive decline and discrepancies between patients and their proxies. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 85. ISSN 0167-4943
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Abstract
Background and Objective: The goal was to measure Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) in individuals with
different types of dementia, mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and healthy controls (HC), and assess agreement
levels between participants and proxies.
Materials and Methods: A sample of 136 participants were recruited; thirty-seven with Alzheimer’s Disease
Dementia (AD), 19 with Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB), 12 with Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), 37 with
MCI and 31 HC. HRQoL was measured via the 12-Item Short Form Health Survey, version 2 (SF-12-v2), separately for participants and proxies. Two groups (Individuals with cognitive decline versus healthy controls) were
matched for sociodemographic variables. Differences for discrepancy rates between both groups were measured
using t-test. Participant and proxy agreements were measured via Intraclass Correlation Coefficients (ICC).
Linear regression analyses were performed to examine what variables explained better the variance observed.
Results: Patients with DLB and FTD showed the lowest levels of HRQoL, while AD and HC showed the highest.
No statistically significant differences were found between discrepancy scores from cognitive decline groups and
healthy controls. ICC indicated high agreement between patients and proxies for the groups with cognitive
decline, while agreements achieved in HC were lower and only in physical indices. GDS score accounted for
8.3% of the variance of proxies’ rating on Mental Summary Composite Score (MSC).
Conclusion: HRQoL physical and mental summaries are more reliable in groups with cognitive decline. Healthy
controls and their proxies show lower agreement, with proxies reporting lower levels than normal for some
relevant indices.
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Dementia; HRQoL; Patient rated outcomes; Caregiver rated outcomes; Quality of life; SF-12; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > Psychology |
Item ID: | 14018 |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.archger.2019.103914 |
Depositing User: | Unai Diaz-Orueta |
Date Deposited: | 16 Feb 2021 14:35 |
Journal or Publication Title: | Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Refereed: | Yes |
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URI: | https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/14018 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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