Cure8 research brief
PSC patients commonly experience multiple symptoms that meaningfully affect mental and physical quality of life. Recognizing and measuring total symptom burden could improve research and clinical attention to symptom-driven needs.
Adults with PSC; clinicians (hepatology/gastroenterology); researchers focused on symptom measurement, HRQOL, or PSC.
The report screened 126 symptomatic adults and used PROMIS global health measures to assess HRQOL. Female sex and cirrhosis were linked to higher total symptom burden, while age, history of cholangitis attacks, and coexisting inflammatory bowel disease were not.
Adding a summed symptom-burden score greatly increased the amount of HRQOL variation explained in the statistical models, suggesting multisymptom assessment could be useful in research and care.
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