TY - JOUR
T1 - Anxiety affects disability and quality of life in patients with painful diabetic neuropathy
AU - Geelen, C. C.
AU - Smeets, R. J. E. M.
AU - Schmitz, Svenja
AU - van den Bergh, J. P.
AU - Goossens, M. E. J. B.
AU - Verbunt, J. A.
PY - 2017/11
Y1 - 2017/11
N2 - Background Painful diabetic neuropathy (PDN) is known to negatively affect psychosocial functioning as expressed by enhanced levels of anxiety and depression. The aim of this study was to specify diabetes and pain-related fears. MethodsThis questionnaire-based cross-sectional study included 154 patients with PDN (mean age 65.76.6years). Correlation analyses corrected for age, gender, pain intensity, pain duration and insulin treatment were performed to assess the associations of fear of hypoglycaemia (Hypoglycaemia Fear Survey, HFS), kinesiophobia (Tampa Scale of Kinesiophobia, TSK), fear of pain (Pain Anxiety Symptom Scale, PASS-20), fear of falling (Falls Efficacy Scale-I, FES-I), fear of fatigue (Tampa Scale of Fatigue, TSF) and fear of negative evaluation (Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale, BFNE), with quality of life (QoL) (Norfolk Quality of Life Questionnaire, Diabetic Neuropathy Version, QOL-DN) and disability (Pain Disability Index, PDI), respectively. ResultsIn univariate analyses, all fears were independently associated with QOL-DN and PDI (p
AB - Background Painful diabetic neuropathy (PDN) is known to negatively affect psychosocial functioning as expressed by enhanced levels of anxiety and depression. The aim of this study was to specify diabetes and pain-related fears. MethodsThis questionnaire-based cross-sectional study included 154 patients with PDN (mean age 65.76.6years). Correlation analyses corrected for age, gender, pain intensity, pain duration and insulin treatment were performed to assess the associations of fear of hypoglycaemia (Hypoglycaemia Fear Survey, HFS), kinesiophobia (Tampa Scale of Kinesiophobia, TSK), fear of pain (Pain Anxiety Symptom Scale, PASS-20), fear of falling (Falls Efficacy Scale-I, FES-I), fear of fatigue (Tampa Scale of Fatigue, TSF) and fear of negative evaluation (Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale, BFNE), with quality of life (QoL) (Norfolk Quality of Life Questionnaire, Diabetic Neuropathy Version, QOL-DN) and disability (Pain Disability Index, PDI), respectively. ResultsIn univariate analyses, all fears were independently associated with QOL-DN and PDI (p
U2 - 10.1002/ejp.1067
DO - 10.1002/ejp.1067
M3 - Article
C2 - 28656745
SN - 1090-3801
VL - 21
SP - 1632
EP - 1641
JO - European Journal of Pain
JF - European Journal of Pain
IS - 10
ER -