Relevance of anxiety in clinical practice of Guillain-Barré syndrome: a cohort study
Objectives Illness is often associated with anxiety, but few data exist about the prognostic significance of this phenomenon. To address this issue, we assessed whether patient anxiety is associated with subsequent need for intubation in Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS).Design Incident case-cohort stud...
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| author | Raphaël Porcher Djillali Annane Andrea Polito Tarek Sharshar Takoua Merhbene Morgane Blanc Marion Antona Marie-Christine Durand Diane Friedman David Orlikowski Marie-Hélène Marcadet |
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| description | Objectives Illness is often associated with anxiety, but few data exist about the prognostic significance of this phenomenon. To address this issue, we assessed whether patient anxiety is associated with subsequent need for intubation in Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS).Design Incident case-cohort study.Setting Acute secondary care in a teaching hospital (France) from 2006 to 2010.Participants 110 adult GBS patients. Either language barrier or cognitive decline that precluded understanding was considered as exclusion criteria.Primary outcome Acute respiratory failure.Interventions At admission, anxiety and clinical factors (including known predictors of respiratory failure: delay between GBS onset and admission, inability to lift head, vital capacity (VC)) were assessed and related to subsequent need for mechanical ventilation (MV). Anxiety was assessed using a Visual Analogical Scale (VAS), the State Anxiety Inventory form Y1 (STAI-Y1) score and a novel-specific questionnaire, evaluating fears potentially triggered by GBS. Patients were asked to choose which they found most stressful from weakness, pain, breathlessness and uncertainty.Results 23 (22%) were subsequently ventilated. Mean STAI-Y1 was 47.2 (range 22–77) and anxiety VAS 5.2 (range 0–10). STAI was above 60/80 in 22 (21%) patients and anxiety VAS above 7/10 in 28 (27%) patients. Fear of remaining paralysed, uncertainty as to how the disease would progress and fear of intubation were the most stressful. Factors significantly associated with anxiety were weakness and bulbar dysfunction. STAI-Y1 was higher and uncertainty more frequent in subsequently ventilated patients, who had shorter onset-admission delay and greater weakness but not a lower VC. Uncertainty was independently associated with subsequent MV.Conclusions Early management of patients with GBS should evaluate anxiety and assess its causes both to adjust psychological support and to anticipate subsequent deterioration. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-25fa6b2546524ec68a5f4d6f596cb41c2025-02-06T06:55:09ZengBMJ Publishing GroupBMJ Open2044-60552012-08-012410.1136/bmjopen-2012-000893Relevance of anxiety in clinical practice of Guillain-Barré syndrome: a cohort studyRaphaël Porcher0Djillali Annane1Andrea Polito2Tarek Sharshar3Takoua Merhbene4Morgane Blanc5Marion Antona6Marie-Christine Durand7Diane Friedman8David Orlikowski9Marie-Hélène Marcadet10Hôpital Hôtel-Dieu Centre d`Épidémiologie Clinique, Paris, FranceMedical Intensive Care Unit, Raymond Poincaré Teaching Hospital, Garches, FranceMedical Intensive Care Unit, Raymond Poincaré Teaching Hospital, Garches, FranceMedical Intensive Care Unit, Raymond Poincaré Teaching Hospital, Garches, FranceMedical Intensive Care Unit, Raymond Poincaré Teaching Hospital, Garches, FranceMedical Intensive Care Unit, Raymond Poincaré Teaching Hospital, Garches, FranceMedical Intensive Care Unit, Raymond Poincaré Teaching Hospital, Garches, FranceFunctional Testing Department, Raymond Poincaré Teaching Hospital, Garches, FranceMedical Intensive Care Unit, Raymond Poincaré Teaching Hospital, Garches, FranceMedical Intensive Care Unit, Raymond Poincaré Teaching Hospital, Garches, FranceMedical Intensive Care Unit, Raymond Poincaré Teaching Hospital, Garches, FranceObjectives Illness is often associated with anxiety, but few data exist about the prognostic significance of this phenomenon. To address this issue, we assessed whether patient anxiety is associated with subsequent need for intubation in Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS).Design Incident case-cohort study.Setting Acute secondary care in a teaching hospital (France) from 2006 to 2010.Participants 110 adult GBS patients. Either language barrier or cognitive decline that precluded understanding was considered as exclusion criteria.Primary outcome Acute respiratory failure.Interventions At admission, anxiety and clinical factors (including known predictors of respiratory failure: delay between GBS onset and admission, inability to lift head, vital capacity (VC)) were assessed and related to subsequent need for mechanical ventilation (MV). Anxiety was assessed using a Visual Analogical Scale (VAS), the State Anxiety Inventory form Y1 (STAI-Y1) score and a novel-specific questionnaire, evaluating fears potentially triggered by GBS. Patients were asked to choose which they found most stressful from weakness, pain, breathlessness and uncertainty.Results 23 (22%) were subsequently ventilated. Mean STAI-Y1 was 47.2 (range 22–77) and anxiety VAS 5.2 (range 0–10). STAI was above 60/80 in 22 (21%) patients and anxiety VAS above 7/10 in 28 (27%) patients. Fear of remaining paralysed, uncertainty as to how the disease would progress and fear of intubation were the most stressful. Factors significantly associated with anxiety were weakness and bulbar dysfunction. STAI-Y1 was higher and uncertainty more frequent in subsequently ventilated patients, who had shorter onset-admission delay and greater weakness but not a lower VC. Uncertainty was independently associated with subsequent MV.Conclusions Early management of patients with GBS should evaluate anxiety and assess its causes both to adjust psychological support and to anticipate subsequent deterioration.https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/2/4/e000893.full |
| spellingShingle | Raphaël Porcher Djillali Annane Andrea Polito Tarek Sharshar Takoua Merhbene Morgane Blanc Marion Antona Marie-Christine Durand Diane Friedman David Orlikowski Marie-Hélène Marcadet Relevance of anxiety in clinical practice of Guillain-Barré syndrome: a cohort study BMJ Open |
| title | Relevance of anxiety in clinical practice of Guillain-Barré syndrome: a cohort study |
| title_full | Relevance of anxiety in clinical practice of Guillain-Barré syndrome: a cohort study |
| title_fullStr | Relevance of anxiety in clinical practice of Guillain-Barré syndrome: a cohort study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Relevance of anxiety in clinical practice of Guillain-Barré syndrome: a cohort study |
| title_short | Relevance of anxiety in clinical practice of Guillain-Barré syndrome: a cohort study |
| title_sort | relevance of anxiety in clinical practice of guillain barre syndrome a cohort study |
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