Title
The impact of toxic oil syndrome on physical and psychological health status using the HAQ and the PHQ-9 questionnaires
Date Issued
01 October 2022
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Instituto de Investigación en Enfermedades Raras (IIER)
Publisher(s)
Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Abstract
Background: Toxic oil syndrome (TOS) is a multisystemic disease due to a massive intoxication. To evaluate physical and mental health of TOS patients, we used the Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ) and the Patient Health Questionnaire–9 (PHQ-9). Additionally, we correlated both questionnaires with the results of the Short Form-36v2 (SF-36v2) Health Survey obtained in the same patients’ sample. Methods: 895 TOS patients who participated in the prior SF-36v2 study were invited to participate. We described patients’ demographic and clinical characteristics, HAQ and PHQ-9 results. HAQ and PHQ-9 scores were correlated to the standardised SF-36v2 results obtained in our previous study. Results: In total, 828 (92.5%) TOS annual follow-up and HAQ and 810 (90.5%) PHQ-9 valid questionnaires were analysed. Participants’ average age was 65.4 (Standard Deviation (SD): 13.4), 521 (62.9%) were women, 725 (87.6%) reported having at least other chronic disease and 789 (95.3%) an additional TOS-related health problem. Average scores were 0.91 (SD: 0.83) for HAQ, 35.8 (SD: 10.1) for PCS and 37.8 (SD: 11.6) for MCS. Overall, 467 (57.7%) participants had moderate/severe depression (PHQ-9 ≥ 10), but only 229 (49.6%) of them reported having a depression diagnosis. Correlation between questionnaires was very strong for HAQ and physical function SF-36v2 dimension and moderate/fair for the rest of combinations. Conclusions: TOS cohort presented low/very low health status measured with SF-36v2, moderate difficulties in performing daily activities according to HAQ, and a high prevalence of major depression measured with PHQ-9. High proportion of undiagnosed depression was detected, proving PHQ-9 useful in terms of detecting and promoting depression diagnosis in the cohort.
Start page
2995
End page
3008
Volume
31
Issue
10
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Psiquiatría
Psicología (incluye relaciones hombre-máquina)
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85131305095
PubMed ID
Source
Quality of Life Research
ISSN of the container
09629343
Sponsor(s)
This work has been supported by the Instituto de Salud Carlos III Common Funds.
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