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Background: Scientific guidelines have been developed to update and harmonize exercise based cardiac rehabilitation (ebCR) in German speaking countries. Key recommendations for ebCR indications have recently been published in part 1 of this journal. The present part 2 updates the evidence with respect to contents and delivery of ebCR in clinical practice, focusing on exercise training (ET), psychological interventions (PI), patient education (PE). In addition, special patients' groups and new developments, such as telemedical (Tele) or home-based ebCR, are discussed as well. Methods: Generation of evidence and search of literature have been described in part 1. Results: Well documented evidence confirms the prognostic significance of ET in patients with coronary artery disease. Positive clinical effects of ET are described in patients with congestive heart failure, heart valve surgery or intervention, adults with congenital heart disease, and peripheral arterial disease. Specific recommendations for risk stratification and adequate exercise prescription for continuous-, interval-, and strength training are given in detail. PI when added to ebCR did not show significant positive effects in general. There was a positive trend towards reduction in depressive symptoms for “distress management” and “lifestyle changes”. PE is able to increase patients’ knowledge and motivation, as well as behavior changes, regarding physical activity, dietary habits, and smoking cessation. The evidence for distinct ebCR programs in special patients’ groups is less clear. Studies on Tele-CR predominantly included low-risk patients. Hence, it is questionable, whether clinical results derived from studies in conventional ebCR may be transferred to Tele-CR. Conclusions: ET is the cornerstone of ebCR. Additional PI should be included, adjusted to the needs of the individual patient. PE is able to promote patients self-management, empowerment, and motivation. Diversity-sensitive structures should be established to interact with the needs of special patient groups and gender issues. Tele-CR should be further investigated as a valuable tool to implement ebCR more widely and effectively.
In dieser Arbeit wurde geprüft, ob ein leitlinienkonformes psychokardiologisches Behandlungskonzept einer herkömmlichen kardiologischen Behandlung bei psychisch belasteten kardiologischen Rehabilitanden in der Reduktion von Angst, Depression und Panik (primäre Zielkriterien) und einer Verbesserung der gesundheitsbezogenen Lebensqualität (sekundäre Zielparameter) überlegen ist. In der Nebenfragstellung wurden Unterschiede in der Wirksamkeit der Intervention in Abhängigkeit vom Geschlecht explorativ geprüft.
Die Fragestellungen wurden mit einem quasiexperimentellen Studiendesign mit sequentiell aufeinanderfolgenden Kohorten untersucht. Die Zielparameter wurden zu Rehabeginn, -ende und 6 Monate nach Entlassung mit validierten Fragebögen (PHQ-9, PHQ-Panik, GAD-7 und MacNew Heart Disease-Fragebogen) erfasst.
Die Hauptanalyse ergab einen kleinen signifikanten Intergruppeneffekt für den Zielparameter Depressivität zugunsten der Kontrollgruppe zu Rehaende und in der Katamnese keine signifikanten Unterschiede im Behandlungserfolg beider Studienbedingungen mehr.
Die Moderatoranalyse ergab kleine Interaktionseffekte zwischen Intervention und Geschlecht für Angst und die gesundheitsbezogene Lebensqualität zu beiden Folgemess-zeitpunkten. Deskriptiv zeigte sich der Trend, dass Frauen von der Interventionsbedingung schlechter, Männer hingegen besser profitierten.
Für die mangelnde Überlegenheit des Interventionsprogrammes kommen vielfältige Aspekte in Frage, die methodisch das sequentiell aufeinanderfolgenden Behandlungsdesign betreffen sowie interventionsbezogen die Ausschöpfung der Therapieressourcen, den Zeitpunkt des Behandlungsbeginns, die Behandlungsdauer, die Berücksichtigung spezifischer Patientenbedürfnisse und auch die Möglichkeit einer ungünstigen Wirkung von Psychotherapie. Ferner war die statistische Power und damit die Aussagekraft der Studie einschränkt. Als Fazit unterliegen noch vielfältige Einflussgrößen gezieltem Forschungsbedarf.
Objective
In order to optimize psycho‐oncological care, studies that quantify the extent of distress and identify certain risk groups are needed. Among patients with prostate cancer (PCa), findings on depression and anxiety are limited.
Methods
We analyzed data of PCa patients selected from a German multi‐center study. Depression and anxiety were assessed with the PHQ‐9 and the GAD‐7 (cut‐off ≥7). We provided physical symptom burden, calculated absolute and relative risk (AR and RR) of depression and anxiety across patient subsets and between patients and the general population (GP) and tested age as a moderator within the relationship of disease‐specific symptoms with depression and anxiety.
Results
Among 636 participants, the majority reported disease‐specific problems (sexuality: 60%; urination: 52%). AR for depression and anxiety was 23% and 22%, respectively. Significant RR were small, with higher risks of distress in patients who are younger (eg, RR\(_{depression}\) = 1.15; 95%‐CI: 1.06‐1.26), treated with chemotherapy (RR\(_{depression}\)n = 1.46; 95%‐CI: 1.09‐1.96) or having metastases (RR\(_{depression}\) = 1.30; 95%‐CI: 1.02‐1.65). Risk of distress was slightly elevated compared to GP (eg, RR\(_{depression}\) = 1.13; 95%‐CI: 1.07‐1.19). Age moderated the relationship between symptoms and anxiety (B\(_{urination}\) = −0.10, P = .02; B\(_{sexuality}\) = −0.11, P = .01).
Conclusions
Younger patients, those with metastases or treatment with chemotherapy seem to be at elevated risk for distress and should be closely monitored. Many patients suffer from disease‐specific symptom burden, by which younger patients seem to be particularly distressed. Support of coping mechanisms associated with disease‐specific symptom burden seems warranted.
Background: Patients with metastatic breast cancer (MBC) are treated with a palliative approach with focus oncontrolling for disease symptoms and maintaining high quality of life. Information on individual needs of patients andtheir relatives as well as on treatment patterns in clinical routine care for this specific patient group are lacking or arenot routinely documented in established Cancer Registries. Thus, we developed a registry concept specifically adaptedfor these incurable patients comprising primary and secondary data as well as mobile-health (m-health) data.
Methods: The concept for patient-centered “Breast cancer care for patients with metastatic disease”(BRE-4-MED)registry was developed and piloted exemplarily in the region of Main-Franconia, a mainly rural region in Germanycomprising about 1.3 M inhabitants. The registry concept includes data on diagnosis, therapy, progression, patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), and needs of family members from several sources of information includingroutine data from established Cancer Registries in different federal states, treating physicians in hospital as well as inoutpatient settings, patients with metastatic breast cancer and their family members. Linkage with routine cancerregistry data was performed to collect secondary data on diagnosis, therapy, and progression. Paper and online-basedquestionnaires were used to assess PROMs. A dedicated mobile application software (APP) was developed to monitorneeds, progression, and therapy change of individual patients. Patient’s acceptance and feasibility of data collection inclinical routine was assessed within a proof-of-concept study.
Results: The concept for the BRE-4-MED registry was developed and piloted between September 2017 and May 2018.In total n= 31 patients were included in the pilot study, n= 22 patients were followed up after 1 month. Recordlinkage with the Cancer Registries of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg demonstrated to be feasible. The voluntary APP/online questionnaire was used by n= 7 participants. The feasibility of the registry concept in clinical routine waspositively evaluated by the participating hospitals.
Conclusion: The concept of the BRE-4-MED registry provides evidence that combinatorial evaluation of PROMs, needsof family members, and raising clinical parameters from primary and secondary data sources as well as m-healthapplications are feasible and accepted in an incurable cancer collective.
Question prompt lists (QPL) are an instrument to promote patient participation in medical encounters by providing a set of questions patients can use during consultations. QPL have predominantly been examined in oncology. Less is known about their use in other contexts. Therefore, we plan to conduct a scoping review to provide an overview of the fields of healthcare in which QPL have been developed and evaluated. MEDLINE/PUBMED, PSYCINFO, PSYNDEX, WEB OF SCIENCE, and CINAHL will be systematically searched. Primary studies from different healthcare contexts that address the following participants/target groups will be included: persons with an acute, chronic, or recurring health condition other than cancer; healthy persons in non-oncological primary preventive measures. There will be no restrictions in terms of study design, sample size, or outcomes. However, only published studies will be included. Studies that were published in English and German between 1990 and 2019 will be examined. Two independent reviewers will apply defined inclusion/exclusion criteria and determine study eligibility in the review process guided by the PRISMA statement.
Ziel der Arbeit war die Untersuchung eines möglichen Zusammenhangs zwischen Lebensqualität bzw. sozialer Unterstützung und dem Bedürfnis nach bzw. der Inanspruchnahme von psychosozialer Unterstützung bei Tumorpatienten.
Die Datenerhebung erfolgte im Rahmen einer deutschlandweiten Multicenterstudie am Studienstandort Würzburg. Eingeschlossen wurden 128 Patienten mit Melanom, gynäkologischen und gastrointestinalen Tumoren. Die Studiendaten wurden mittels Fragebögen erhoben. Hierzu zählten der SF-12-Fragebogen zur Lebensqualität, der SSUK-8-Fragebogen zur sozialen Unterstützung und jeweils ein Fragebogen zum Bedürfnis und zur Inanspruchnahme psychosozialer Unterstützung.
Ein Zusammenhang ergab sich zwischen psychischer Lebensqualität und dem Bedürfnis nach psychosozialer Unterstützung. Patienten, die ein Bedürfnis nach psychosozialer Unterstützung äußerten, wiesen eine signifikant niedrigere psychische Lebensqualität auf. Ebenso konnte ein Zusammenhang zwischen der Inanspruchnahme psychosozialer Unterstützung und der Lebensqualität gesehen werden. Patienten, die psychosoziale Unterstützungsangebote in Anspruch genommen hatten, wiesen eine niedrigere körperliche und psychische Lebensqualität auf.
Es konnten keine Zusammenhänge zwischen positiver sozialer Unterstützung und dem Bedürfnis nach bzw. der Inanspruchnahme von psychosozialer Unterstützung gesehen werden.
Introduction
Multidisciplinary, complex rehabilitation interventions are an important part of the treatment of chronic diseases. However, little is known about the effectiveness of routine rehabilitation interventions within the German healthcare system. Due to the nature of the social insurance system in Germany, randomised controlled trials examining the effects of rehabilitation interventions are challenging to implement and scarcely accessible. Consequently, alternative pre-post designs can be employed to assess pre-post effects of medical rehabilitation programmes. We present a protocol of systematic review and meta-analysis methods to assess the pre-post effects of rehabilitation interventions in Germany.
Methods and analysis
The respective study will be conducted within the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis guidelines. A systematic literature review will be conducted to identify studies reporting the pre-post effects (start of intervention vs end of intervention or later) in German healthcare. Studies investigating the following disease groups will be included: orthopaedics, rheumatology, oncology, pulmonology, cardiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology and psychosomatics. The primary outcomes of interest are physical/mental quality of life, physical functioning and social participation for all disease groups as well as pain (orthopaedic and rheumatologic patients only), blood pressure (cardiac patients only), asthma control (patients with asthma only), dyspnoea (patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease only) and depression/anxiety (psychosomatic patients only). We will invite the principal investigators of the identified studies to provide additional individual patient data. We aim to perform the meta-analyses using individual patient data as well as aggregate data. We will examine the effects of both study-level and patient-level moderators by using a meta-regression method.
Ethics and dissemination
Only studies that have received institutional approval from an ethics committee and present anonymised individual patient data will be included in the meta-analysis. The results will be presented in a peer-reviewed publication and at research conferences. A declaration of no objection by the ethics committee of the University of Würzburg is available (number 20180411 01).
Background:
Employees insured in pension insurance, who are incapable of working due to ill health, are entitled to a disability pension. To assess whether an individual meets the medical requirements to be considered as disabled, a work capacity evaluation is conducted. However, there are no official guidelines on how to perform an external quality assurance for this evaluation process. Furthermore, the quality of medical reports in the field of insurance medicine can vary substantially, and systematic evaluations are scarce. Reliability studies using peer review have repeatedly shown insufficient ability to distinguish between high, moderate and low quality. Considering literature recommendations, we developed an instrument to examine the quality of medical experts’reports.
Methods:
The peer review manual developed contains six quality domains (formal structure, clarity, transparency, completeness, medical-scientific principles, and efficiency) comprising 22 items. In addition, a superordinate criterion (survey confirmability) rank the overall quality and usefulness of a report. This criterion evaluates problems of innerlogic and reasoning. Development of the manual was assisted by experienced physicians in a pre-test. We examined the observable variance in peer judgements and reliability as the most important outcome criteria. To evaluate inter-rater reliability, 20 anonymous experts’ reports detailing the work capacity evaluation were reviewed by 19 trained raters (peers). Percentage agreement and Kendall’s W, a reliability measure of concordance between two or more peers, were calculated. A total of 325 reviews were conducted.
Results:
Agreement of peer judgements with respect to the superordinate criterion ranged from 29.2 to 87.5%. Kendall’s W for the quality domain items varied greatly, ranging from 0.09 to 0.88. With respect to the superordinate criterion, Kendall’s W was 0.39, which indicates fair agreement. The results of the percentage agreement revealed systemic peer preferences for certain deficit scale categories.
Conclusion:
The superordinate criterion was not sufficiently reliable. However, in comparison to other reliability studies, this criterion showed an equivalent reliability value. This report aims to encourage further efforts to improve evaluation instruments. To reduce disagreement between peer judgments, we propose the revision of the peer review instrumentand the development and implementation of a standardized rater training to improve reliability.
Seit Jahren wird trotz der stetigen Modernisierung der medizinischen Versorgungsleistungen ein Anstieg der stationären Einweisungen in den psychiatrischen Kliniken registriert. Dabei nutzt eine kleine Gruppe von Patienten, die sogenannten Heavy User, den Großteil der zur Verfügung stehenden therapeutischen Ressourcen. Diese explorative Studie beschreibt eine Gruppe von erwachsenen, weiblichen Heavy Usern (n=23) mit restriktiver bzw. bulimischer Anorexie oder Bulimie, die mindestens drei stationäre Aufnahmen in einer psychiatrischen Klinik aufwiesen. Als Vergleich dient eine Kontrollgruppe von weiblichen Nicht-Heavy Usern (n=13) mit maximal einem stationären Voraufenthalt.
Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Heavy User mit der Hauptdiagnose einer Essstörung spezifische soziodemographische, diagnostische und psychopathologische als auch Persönlichkeitsmerkmale aufweisen, die eine rechtzeitige Identifizierung dieser Patientengruppe ermöglichen könnten. Der Heavy Use wird als multifaktorielles Geschehen verdeutlicht und die Notwendigkeit einer frühen Identifikation und Intervention betont. Da die bisherigen Studienergebnisse sehr uneinheitliche Resultate lieferten, sind weitere Untersuchungen dieser Patientengruppe unerlässlich. Die Entwicklung alternativer und individueller Therapieansätze ist angezeigt, um passende Versorgungsangebote für diese therapieresistenten Patienten zu schaffen.
Bei Prostatakrebspatienten zeigte sich eine niedrige Tendenz zu Benefit Finding am Behandlungsbeginn und drei Monate später (Mt1 = 2,87; SDt1 = 0,96; Mt2 = 2,92; SDt2 = 0,94). Die gesundheitsbezogene Lebensqualität sank dagegen im Verlauf der 12 Wochen nach Therapiebeginn deutlich (Mt1 = 74,06; SDt1 = 18,70; Mt2 = 70,81; SDt2 = 19,19). Benefit Finding und gesundheitsbezogene Lebensqualität korrelierten zu beiden Untersuchungsterminen jeweils schwach negativ miteinander. Der Zusammenhang beider Variablen war jedoch in Regressionsanalysen für den zeitlichen Verlauf über drei Monate nicht reproduzierbar. Zusammenfassend muss deshalb postuliert werden, dass sich Benefit Finding unmittelbar bei Therapiebeginn für Prostatatkrebspatienten nicht als Prädiktor für verbesserte Lebensqualität nach drei Monaten eignet und vice versa.