An Exploratory Study of Long-Term Outcome Measures in Critical Illness Survivors: Construct Validity of Physical Activity, Frailty, and Health-Related Quality of Life Measures
OBJECTIVE:Functional capacity is commonly impaired after critical illness. We sought to clarify the relationship between objective measures of physical activity, self-reported measures of health-related quality of life, and clinician reported global functioning capacity (frailty) in such patients, a...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Critical care medicine 2016-06, Vol.44 (6), p.e362-e369 |
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Zusammenfassung: | OBJECTIVE:Functional capacity is commonly impaired after critical illness. We sought to clarify the relationship between objective measures of physical activity, self-reported measures of health-related quality of life, and clinician reported global functioning capacity (frailty) in such patients, as well as the impact of prior chronic disease status on these functional outcomes.
DESIGN:Prospective outcome study of critical illness survivors.
SETTING:Community-based follow-up.
PATIENTS:Participants of the Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Study in Critical CareLongitudinal Evaluation Study (NCT01106300), invasively ventilated for more than 48 hours and on the ICU greater than 7 days.
INTERVENTIONS:None.
MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS:Physical activity levels (health-related quality of life [36-item short-form health survey] and daily step counts [accelerometry]) were compared to norm-based or healthy control scores, respectively. Controls for frailty (Clinical Frailty Score) were non-morbid, age- and gender-matched to survivors. Ninety-one patients were recruited on ICU admission41 were contacted for post-discharge assessment, and data were collected from 30 (14 female; mean age, 55.3 yr [95% CI, 48.3–62.3]; mean post-discharge, 576 d [95% CI, 539–614]). Patients’ mean daily step count (5,803; 95% CI, 4,792–6,813) was lower than that in controls (11,735; 95% CI, 10,928–12,542; p < 0.001), and lower in those with preexisting chronic disease than without (2,989 [95% CI, 776–5,201] vs 7,737 [95% CI, 4,907–10,567]; p = 0.013). Physical activity measures (accelerometry, health-related quality of life, and frailty) demonstrated good construct validity across all three tools. Step variability (from SD) was highly correlated with daily steps (r = 0.67; p < 0.01) demonstrating a potential boundary constraint.
CONCLUSIONS:Subjective and objective measures of physical activity are all informative in ICU survivors. They are all reduced 18 months post-discharge in ICU survivors, and worse in those with pre-admission chronic disease states. Investigating interventions to improve functional capacity in ICU survivors will require stratification based on the presence of premorbidity. |
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ISSN: | 0090-3493 1530-0293 |
DOI: | 10.1097/CCM.0000000000001645 |