Impact of fatigue on health-related quality of life in patients with Parkinson’s disease: a prospective study

Objective: To investigate the longitudinal association between the impact of fatigue and health-related quality of life and to determine if potential confounders distorted this association. Design: Baseline, 3-, 6- and 12-week assessments of a randomized clinical trial were used. Setting: Outpatient...

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Published in:Clinical rehabilitation 2014-03, Vol.28 (3), p.300-311
Main Authors: Elbers, Roy G, van Wegen, Erwin EH, Verhoef, John, Kwakkel, Gert
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Activities of daily living
Aged
Angina pectoris
Anxiety
Anxiety - etiology
Anxiety-Depression
Arthritis
Brain research
Clinical trials
Confidence intervals
Depression - etiology
Fatigue
Fatigue - etiology
Fatigue - psychology
Female
Gait
Health status
Humans
Longitudinal studies
Male
Outpatients
Parkinson Disease - complications
Parkinson Disease - psychology
Parkinson Disease - rehabilitation
Parkinson's disease
Prospective Studies
Quality of life
Quality of Life - psychology
Questionnaires
Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
Regression Analysis
Rehabilitation
Rehabilitation Centers
Sickness Impact Profile
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Summary:Objective: To investigate the longitudinal association between the impact of fatigue and health-related quality of life and to determine if potential confounders distorted this association. Design: Baseline, 3-, 6- and 12-week assessments of a randomized clinical trial were used. Setting: Outpatient rehabilitation centre. Subjects: Patients with idiopathic Parkinson’s disease. Methods: Quality of life was assessed with the Parkinson’s Disease Questionnaire-39 and the Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory was used to assess fatigue. Time-independent and time-dependent factors were investigated for their bivariate association with quality of life by applying random coefficient analysis. Candidate confounders were successively added to the longitudinal association model to determine if the relationship between quality of life and fatigue was distorted. A change beyond 15% of found regression coefficient of the Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory was considered significant. Results: One hundred and fifty-three patients were included. Impact of fatigue was significantly associated with poorer quality of life (β = 0.24, 95% confidence interval = 0.18 to 0.30). This association was significantly distorted by depression (30.0%) and anxiety (24.1%). No distortion was found for other factors. After controlling for confounders, fatigue remained significantly associated with quality of life (β = 0.12, 95% confidence interval = 0.06 to 0.18, r2 = 2.3%). Conclusions: Our results suggest that patients who experience fatigue tend to report lower levels of quality of life. However, this longitudinal relationship is confounded by depression and anxiety and suggests that the unique contribution of fatigue to overall quality of life is rather small.
ISSN:0269-2155
1477-0873
DOI:10.1177/0269215513503355