Preoperative Mental Health Component Scoring Is Related to Patient Reported Outcomes Following Lumbar Fusion. Issue 12 (15th June 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Stull, Justin D.; Divi, Srikanth N.; Goyal, Dhruv K.C.; Bowles, Daniel R.; Reyes, Ariana A.; Bechay, Joseph; Sonnier, John Hayden; Nachwalter, Ryan N.; Zarowin, Joseph J.; Galetta, Matthew S.; Kaye, Ian David; Woods, Barrett I.; Kurd, Mark F.; Radcliff, Kris E.; Rihn, Jeffrey A.; Anderson, David Greg; Hilibrand, Alan S.; Kepler, Christopher K.; Vaccaro, Alexander R.; Schroeder, Gregory D.
• Is Part Of: Spine. Volume 45:Issue 12(2020)
• Publication Date: 2020-06-15
• Subjects: depression -- health related quality of life outcomes -- Oswestry disability index -- patient reported outcome measurements -- SF-12 mental component score -- SF-12 physical component score -- visual analogue scale back pain -- visual analogue scale leg pain; Spine -- Abnormalities -- Periodicals; Spine -- Diseases -- Periodicals; Spine -- Surgery -- Periodicals; 616.73005
• DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0000000000003399
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0362-2436

Abstract

Abstract : Study Design: Retrospective cohort review. Objective: The objective of this study was to identify depression using the Mental Component Score (MCS-12) of the Short Form-12 (SF-12) survey and to correlate with patient outcomes. Summary of Background Data: The impact of preexisting depressive symptoms on health-care related quality of life (HRQOL) outcomes following lumbar spine fusion is not well understood. Methods: Patients undergoing lumbar fusion between one to three levels at a single center, academic hospital were retrospectively identified. Patients under the age of 18 years and those undergoing surgery for infection, trauma, tumor, or revision, and less than 1-year follow-up were excluded. Patients with depressive symptoms were identified using an existing clinical diagnosis or a score of MCS-12 less than or equal to 45.6 on the preoperative SF-12 survey. Absolute HRQOL scores, the recovery ratio (RR) and the percent of patients achieving minimum clinically important difference (MCID) between groups were compared, and a multiple linear regression analysis was performed. Results: A total of 391 patients were included in the total cohort, with 123 (31.5%) patients reporting symptoms of depression based on MCS-12 and 268 (68.5%) without these symptoms. The low MCS-12 group was found to have significantly worse preoperative Oswestry disability index (ODI), visual analogue scale back pain (VAS Back) and visual analogue scale leg pain (VAS Leg) scores, and postoperative SF-12 physical component score (PCS-12), ODI, VAS Back, and VAS Leg pain scores ( P < 0.05) than the non-depressed group. Finally, multiple linear regression analysis revealed preoperative depression to be a significant predictor of worse outcomes after lumbar fusion. Conclusion: Patients with depressive symptoms, identified with an MCS-12 cutoff below 45.6, were found to have significantly greater disability in a variety of HRQOL domains at baseline and postoperative measurement, and demonstrated less improvement in all outcome domains included in the analysis compared with patients without depression. However, while the improvement was less, even the low MCS-12 cohort demonstrated statistically significant improvement in all HRQOL outcome measures after surgery. Level of Evidence: 3 Abstract : A retrospective comparative study identified patients with high versus low Mental Component Score (MCS-12), who underwent lumbar fusion surgery for degenerative lumbar disease. Patients with low MCS-12 scores were found to have worse baseline, postoperative, and improvement scores in all patient reported outcome measurements included in the analysis.