Marjan van den Akker1, Rein Vos, J André Knottnerus. 1. Maastricht University, Department of General Practice, Care and Public Health Research Institute, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands. Marjan.vandenAkker@HAG.unimaas.nl
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To further disentangle multimorbidity and its relation with psychosocial characteristics, by categorizing combinations of diseases within a patient as general or disease-related susceptibility, based on the presence or absence of a pathophysiological communality of diseases. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: A cohort of 3,460 patients that previously took part in a study on multimorbidity was followed up for a period of 2 years. CONTEXT: the Registration Network Family Practices, which is a continuous and computerized database in Dutch general practice that covered over 60,000 patients at the time of the study. RESULTS: During 2-year follow-up 91.6% did not show susceptibility, 4.2% showed general susceptibility, 1.4% disease-related susceptibility, 0.8% both general and disease-related susceptibility, and 1.9% patients could not be classified. None of the studied characteristics was significantly related to the occurrence of disease-related susceptibility. A decreased risk for general disease susceptibility related to an internal health locus of control, an active and palliative coping style, and the occurrence of positive life events. CONCLUSION: The distinction between general susceptibility and disease-related susceptibility is feasible and seems useful. Further development of this methodology is needed, as is confirmation of these results in a larger study population.
OBJECTIVES: To further disentangle multimorbidity and its relation with psychosocial characteristics, by categorizing combinations of diseases within a patient as general or disease-related susceptibility, based on the presence or absence of a pathophysiological communality of diseases. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: A cohort of 3,460 patients that previously took part in a study on multimorbidity was followed up for a period of 2 years. CONTEXT: the Registration Network Family Practices, which is a continuous and computerized database in Dutch general practice that covered over 60,000 patients at the time of the study. RESULTS: During 2-year follow-up 91.6% did not show susceptibility, 4.2% showed general susceptibility, 1.4% disease-related susceptibility, 0.8% both general and disease-related susceptibility, and 1.9% patients could not be classified. None of the studied characteristics was significantly related to the occurrence of disease-related susceptibility. A decreased risk for general disease susceptibility related to an internal health locus of control, an active and palliative coping style, and the occurrence of positive life events. CONCLUSION: The distinction between general susceptibility and disease-related susceptibility is feasible and seems useful. Further development of this methodology is needed, as is confirmation of these results in a larger study population.
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