Jane Louise Phillips1, Lawrence Lam2, Tim Luckett3, Meera Agar4, David Currow5. 1. The Cunningham Centre for Palliative Care, Sacred Heart Health Care, St. Vincent's Hospital Sydney, and School of Nursing, The University of Notre Dame, Sydney. Electronic address: jphillips@stvincents.com.au. 2. Department of Health and Physical Education, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong SAR; Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. 3. Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, Australia. 4. Braeside Palliative Care Service, Hammond Care, and School of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. 5. Flinders University and Southern Adelaide Palliative Care Service, Daw Park, South Australia, Australia.
Abstract
CONTEXT: The spatial environments that palliative care patients frequent for business and leisure constrict as their disease progresses and their physical functioning deteriorates. Measuring a person's movement within his or her own environment is a clinically relevant and patient-centered outcome because it measures function in a way that reflects actual and not theoretical participation. OBJECTIVES: This exploratory study set out to test whether the Life-Space Assessment (LSA) would correlate with other commonly used palliative care outcome measures of function and quality of life. METHODS: The baseline LSA, Australia-modified Karnofsky Performance Status Scale (AKPS), and the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire-Core 15-Palliative (EORTC QLQ-C15-PAL) scores from two large clinical trials were used to calculate correlation coefficients between the measures. Convergent validity analysis was undertaken by comparing LSA scores between participants with higher (≥70) and lower (≤60) AKPS scores. RESULTS: The LSA was correlated significantly and positively with the AKPS, with a moderate correlation coefficient of 0.54 (P<0.001). There was a significant weak negative correlation between the LSA and the EORTC QLQ-C15-PAL, with a small coefficient of -0.22 (P=0.027), but a strong correlation between the LSA and the EORTC QLQ-C15-PAL item related to independent activities of daily living (r=-0.654, P<0.01). A significant difference in the LSA score between participants with higher (≥70) and lower (≤60) AKPS scores t(97)=-4.35, P<0.001) was found. CONCLUSION: The LSA appears applicable to palliative care populations given the convergent validity and capacity of this instrument to differentiate a person's ability to move through life-space zones by performance status. Further research is required to validate and apply the LSA within community palliative care populations.
CONTEXT: The spatial environments that palliative care patients frequent for business and leisure constrict as their disease progresses and their physical functioning deteriorates. Measuring a person's movement within his or her own environment is a clinically relevant and patient-centered outcome because it measures function in a way that reflects actual and not theoretical participation. OBJECTIVES: This exploratory study set out to test whether the Life-Space Assessment (LSA) would correlate with other commonly used palliative care outcome measures of function and quality of life. METHODS: The baseline LSA, Australia-modified Karnofsky Performance Status Scale (AKPS), and the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire-Core 15-Palliative (EORTC QLQ-C15-PAL) scores from two large clinical trials were used to calculate correlation coefficients between the measures. Convergent validity analysis was undertaken by comparing LSA scores between participants with higher (≥70) and lower (≤60) AKPS scores. RESULTS: The LSA was correlated significantly and positively with the AKPS, with a moderate correlation coefficient of 0.54 (P<0.001). There was a significant weak negative correlation between the LSA and the EORTC QLQ-C15-PAL, with a small coefficient of -0.22 (P=0.027), but a strong correlation between the LSA and the EORTC QLQ-C15-PAL item related to independent activities of daily living (r=-0.654, P<0.01). A significant difference in the LSA score between participants with higher (≥70) and lower (≤60) AKPS scores t(97)=-4.35, P<0.001) was found. CONCLUSION: The LSA appears applicable to palliative care populations given the convergent validity and capacity of this instrument to differentiate a person's ability to move through life-space zones by performance status. Further research is required to validate and apply the LSA within community palliative care populations.
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