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FRI0448 Evaluating health status of 620 patients with primary sjÖgren’s syndrome using EQ-5D
  1. W.-F. Ng1,
  2. D. Lendrem2,
  3. S. Mitchell2,
  4. S. Bowman3,
  5. E. Price4,
  6. C. Pease5,
  7. P. Emery5,
  8. J. Andrews5,
  9. M. Bombardieri6,
  10. N. Sutcliffe6,
  11. C. Pitzalis6,
  12. P. Lanyon7,
  13. J. Hunter8,
  14. M. Gupta8,
  15. J. McLaren9,
  16. M. Regan10,
  17. A. Cooper11,
  18. I. Giles12,
  19. D. Isenberg12,
  20. S. Vadivelu13,
  21. D. Coady14,
  22. B. Griffiths2
  23. and United Kingdom Primary Sjogren’s Syndrome Registry
  1. 1Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University
  2. 2Dept. of Rheumatology, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne
  3. 3Dept. of Rheumatology, University Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham
  4. 4Dept. of Rheumatology, Great Western Hospital, Swindon
  5. 5NIHR Leeds Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust, Leeds
  6. 6Dept. of Rheumatology, Barts & the London NHS Trust, London
  7. 7Dept. of Rheumatology, Nottingham University Hospital, Nottingham
  8. 8Dept. of Rheumatology, Gartnavel General Hospital, Glasgow
  9. 9Dept. of Rheumatology, NHS Fife, Kirkcaldy
  10. 10Dept. of Rheumatology, Royal Derby Hospital, Derby
  11. 11Dept. of Rheumatology, Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester
  12. 12Dept. of Rheumatology, University College London, London
  13. 13Dept. of Rheumatology, Queens Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead
  14. 14Dept. of Rheumatology, Royal Sunderland Hospital, Sunderland, United Kingdom

Abstract

Background EQ-5D is a standardised tool for measurement of health status and is an increasingly popular health-related quality of life instrument but has not been applied to patients with primary Sjögren’s syndrome (PSS). EQ-5D provides a simple descriptive profile, a single index value for health status and a visual analogue score (VAS). The key advantages of EQ-5D are that the instrument is preference-based, easy to complete and the value sets can be easily converted to Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALY) to aid cost-utility analysis.

Objectives To evaluate the health status of a large cohort of patients with primary Sjogren’s syndrome in the UK using EQ-5D.

Methods We evaluated the health status of 620 clinically well characterised PSS patients from the UK PSS registry (UKPSSR) who fulfil the American European Consensus Group classification criteria 2002. All data were collected prospectively using a standardised pro forma as previously described (1). Data were compared to the UK normative data provided by the EuroQoL. In addition, the relationship between the health status of PSS patients and various clinical and patient reported outcome measures of PSS were examined.

Results The proportion of PSS patients reporting any problem in mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain/discomfort & anxiety/depression were 42.4, 16.9, 56.7, 81.1 & 49.6 (%) respectively compared to 5.4, 1.6, 7.9, 30.2 & 15.7 (%) in the general UK population. The mean±SD VAS score was 59.9±21.2, compared to 81.3±16.8 for the general UK population. Univariate correlation analysis showed that EQ-5D VAS correlated with many clinical features of PSS but most strongly with fatigue, depression and pain with R values >0.5. Among the laboratory measures, only IgG levels, paraproteins and C3 correlated with EQ-5D VAS. Hierarchical cluster analysis showed that depression and fatigue are the most important determinants of variations in health status in this PSS cohort.

Conclusions To our knowledge, this is the first report on the health status of PSS patients using EQ-5D. PSS patients have significantly impaired health status compared to the UK general population. Depression and fatigue are the key determinants of health status in PSS. Our data adds to the growing body of evidence that effective management of fatigue is key to improving the health status of PSS patients.

  1. Ng WF et al, Rheumatology, 2011;50:32-9. Other UKPSSR collaborators: Moots R, Chadravarty K, Gendi N, Hamburger J, Richards A, Rauz S, Mulherin D, Kitas GD, Lloyd M, Moore L, Lawson C, Clunie G, Knight S, Symmons D, Carr A, Carrozzo M, Figuereido F, Macleod I, Tarn J, Foggo H, Mann S, Young-Min S, Field A, Kaye S, Mewar D, Akil M, Dasgupta B, Fedele S, Porter S, Li C, Hall F.

Disclosure of Interest None Declared

https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2012-eular.2905

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