How People with Multiple Sclerosis Rate Their Quality of Life: An EQ-5D Survey via the UK MS Register

Kerina H Jones, David V Ford, Philip A Jones, Ann John, Rodden M Middleton, Hazel Lockhart-Jones, Jeffrey Peng, Lisa A Osborne and J Gareth Noble

PLOS ONE, 2013, vol. 8, issue 6, 1-8

Abstract: Introduction: The EQ-5D is a widely-used, standardised, quality of life measure producing health profiles, indices and states. The aims of this study were to assess the role of various factors in how people with Multiple Sclerosis rate their quality of life, based on responses to the EQ-5D received via the web portal of the UK MS Register. Methods: The 4516 responses to the EQ-5D (between May 2011 and April 2012) were collated with basic demographic and descriptive MS data and the resulting dataset was analysed in SPSS (v.20). Results: The mean health state for people with MS was 59.73 (SD 22.4, median 61), compared to the UK population mean of 82.48 (which is approximately 1SD above the cohort mean). The characteristics of respondents with high health states (at or above +1SD) were: better health profiles (most predictive dimension: Usual Activities), higher health indices, younger age, shorter durations of MS, female gender, relapsing-remitting MS, higher educational attainment and being in paid employment (all p-values

Date: 2013
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