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A value-based healthcare approach: Health-related quality of life and psychosocial functioning in women with Turner syndrome.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE:As part of the value-based healthcare programme in our hospital, a set of patient-reported outcome measures was developed together with patients and implemented in the dedicated Turner Syndrome (TS) outpatient clinic. This study aims to investigate different aspects of health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) and psychosocial functioning in women with TS in order to establish new possible targets for therapy. DESIGN/PARTICIPANTS:A comprehensive set of questionnaires (EQ-5D, PSS-10, CIS-20, Ferti-QoL, FSFI) was developed and used to capture different aspects of HR-QoL and psychosocial functioning in a large cohort of adult women with Turner syndrome. All consecutive women, ?18 years, who visited the outpatient clinic of our tertiary centre were eligible for inclusion. RESULTS:Of the eligible 201 women who were invited to participate, 177 women (age 34 ± 12 years, mean ± SD) completed at least one of the validated questionnaires (88%). Women with TS reported a lower health-related quality of life (EQ-5D: 0.857 vs 0.892, P = .003), perceived more stress (PSS-10:14.7 vs 13.3; P = .012) and experienced increased fatigue (CIS-20: P < .001) compared to the general Dutch population. A relationship between noncardiac comorbidities (eg diabetes, orthopaedic complaints) and HR-QoL was found (R = .508). CONCLUSIONS:We showed that TS women suffer from impaired HR-QoL, more perceived stress and increased fatigue compared to healthy controls. A relationship between noncardiac comorbidities and HR-QoL was found. Especially perceived stress and increased fatigue can be considered targets for improvement of HR-QoL in TS women.

SUBMITTER: van den Hoven AT

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7216918 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A value-based healthcare approach: Health-related quality of life and psychosocial functioning in women with Turner syndrome.

van den Hoven Allard T AT Bons Lidia R LR Dykgraaf Ramon H M RHM Dessens Arianne B AB Pastoor Hester H de Graaff Laura C G LCG Metselaar Mick R MR Kneppers-Swets Annemiek A Kardys Isabella I Mijnarends Hester H Zweerus Frank F Hazelzet Jan A JA Utens Elisabeth M W J EMWJ van den Bosch Annemien E AE Roos-Hesselink Jolien W JW

Clinical endocrinology 20200218 5

<h4>Objective</h4>As part of the value-based healthcare programme in our hospital, a set of patient-reported outcome measures was developed together with patients and implemented in the dedicated Turner Syndrome (TS) outpatient clinic. This study aims to investigate different aspects of health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) and psychosocial functioning in women with TS in order to establish new possible targets for therapy.<h4>Design/participants</h4>A comprehensive set of questionnaires (EQ-5 ...[more]

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Project description:Despite the long-held belief that growth hormone supplementation provides psychosocial benefits to patients with Turner syndrome (TS), this assumption has never been rigorously tested in a randomized control trial. As a sub-study of the Canadian growth-hormone trial, parent-, and patient-completed standardized questionnaires were used to compare 70 girls with TS who received injections (GH group) and 61 similarly followed untreated TS controls (C) on multiple facets of psychosocial functioning. Questionnaires were given (i) at baseline (session 1, mean age = 10.4 y), (ii) before estrogen therapy for puberty induction (session 2, mean age = 13.0 y), (iii) after 1 year of estrogen therapy (session 3, mean age = 14.4 y), and (iv) when growth stopped (session 4, mean age = 16.3 y). Groups were compared for multiple facets of psychosocial function within social, behavioral, self-esteem, and academic domains. Results were also correlated with indices of adult height. We found no global (i.e., across-session) group differences on any scales or subscales of the four domains. In both GH and C groups, age-related improvements were seen for social problems, externalizing behavior problems, and school functioning and age-related declines for social competence and social relations. Both parents and patients claimed GH received less teasing than C but C had more friends than GH. Results from analyses conducted within individual sessions showed that while GH at early sessions claimed to be more popular, more socially engaged, better adapted, and to have higher self-esteem than C, C was reported to be less anxious, depressed, and withdrawn than GH at adult height. The correlation analyses revealed different effects of adult height and height gain on outcome for the two groups. In GH, both height parameters were correlated with multiple parent- and/or self-reported indices from the four psychosocial domains, whereas in C, only adult height and two indices (viz., total self-concept and school functioning), were correlated. The observed modest gains in psychosocial functioning for patients with TS treated with GH highlight the need for alternative approaches to assist them in coping with the challenges of their condition.

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A value-based healthcare approach: Health-related quality of life and psychosocial functioning in women with Turner syndrome.

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