TY - JOUR
T1 - Do neurocognitive impairments explain the differences between brain tumor patients and their proxies when assessing the patient's IADL?
AU - Oort, Quirien
AU - Dirven, Linda
AU - Sikkes, Sietske A. M.
AU - Aaronson, Neil
AU - Boele, Florien
AU - Brannan, Christine
AU - Egeter, Jonas
AU - Grant, Robin
AU - Klein, Martin
AU - Lips, Irene M.
AU - Narita, Yoshitaka
AU - Sato, Hitomi
AU - Sztankay, Monika
AU - Stockhammer, G. nther
AU - Talacchi, Andrea
AU - Uitdehaag, Bernard M. J.
AU - Reijneveld, Jaap C.
AU - Taphoorn, Martin J. B.
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The Author(s).
PY - 2022/8/1
Y1 - 2022/8/1
N2 - Background: Neurocognitive impairments are common among brain tumor patients, and may impact patients' awareness of performance in instrumental activities in daily life (IADL). We examined differences between patient-and proxy-reported assessments of the patient's IADL, and whether the level of (dis)agreement is associated with neurocognitive impairments. Methods: Brain tumor patients and their proxies completed the phase 3 version of the EORTC IADL-BN32 questionnaire measuring IADL, and patients completed six neurocognitive measures. Patient-proxy difference scores in IADL were compared between patients who were defined as neurocognitively impaired (≥2 neurocognitive measures ≥2.0 standard deviations below healthy controls) and non-neurocognitively impaired. With multinomial logistic regression analyses we examined if neurocognitive variables were independently associated with patient-proxy disagreement in IADL ratings. Results: Patients (n = 81) did not systematically (P <. 01) rate IADL outcomes different than their proxies. Proxies did report more problems on 19/32 individual items and all five scales. This effect was more apparent in dyads with a neurocognitively impaired patient (n = 37), compared to dyads with non-neurocognitively impaired patients (n = 44). Multinomial logistic regression analyses showed that several neurocognitive variables (e.g., cognitive flexibility and verbal fluency) were independently associated with disagreement between patients and proxies on different scales. Conclusion: Neurocognitive deficits seem to play a role in the discrepancies between brain tumor patients and their proxies assessment of patient's level of IADL. Although replication of our results is needed, our findings suggests that caution is warranted in interpreting self-reported IADL by patients with neurocognitive impairment, and that such self-reports should be supplemented with proxy ratings.
AB - Background: Neurocognitive impairments are common among brain tumor patients, and may impact patients' awareness of performance in instrumental activities in daily life (IADL). We examined differences between patient-and proxy-reported assessments of the patient's IADL, and whether the level of (dis)agreement is associated with neurocognitive impairments. Methods: Brain tumor patients and their proxies completed the phase 3 version of the EORTC IADL-BN32 questionnaire measuring IADL, and patients completed six neurocognitive measures. Patient-proxy difference scores in IADL were compared between patients who were defined as neurocognitively impaired (≥2 neurocognitive measures ≥2.0 standard deviations below healthy controls) and non-neurocognitively impaired. With multinomial logistic regression analyses we examined if neurocognitive variables were independently associated with patient-proxy disagreement in IADL ratings. Results: Patients (n = 81) did not systematically (P <. 01) rate IADL outcomes different than their proxies. Proxies did report more problems on 19/32 individual items and all five scales. This effect was more apparent in dyads with a neurocognitively impaired patient (n = 37), compared to dyads with non-neurocognitively impaired patients (n = 44). Multinomial logistic regression analyses showed that several neurocognitive variables (e.g., cognitive flexibility and verbal fluency) were independently associated with disagreement between patients and proxies on different scales. Conclusion: Neurocognitive deficits seem to play a role in the discrepancies between brain tumor patients and their proxies assessment of patient's level of IADL. Although replication of our results is needed, our findings suggests that caution is warranted in interpreting self-reported IADL by patients with neurocognitive impairment, and that such self-reports should be supplemented with proxy ratings.
KW - Brain tumor
KW - Daily functioning
KW - IADL
KW - Instrumental activities of daily living
KW - Observer-reported
KW - Patient-reported
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1093/nop/npac016
DO - https://doi.org/10.1093/nop/npac016
M3 - Article
C2 - 35855454
SN - 2054-2577
VL - 9
SP - 271
EP - 283
JO - Neuro-Oncology Practice
JF - Neuro-Oncology Practice
IS - 4
ER -