The Seattle Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Patient Project Database: observational, longitudinal, dyadic characterization of people with ALS and their partners.
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Abstract
Introduction: The median survival time in ALS is approximately 3 years, but survival times range from less than a year to more than 10 years and much variance in disease course remains to be explained. As is true for physical outcomes, there is considerable variance in QOL, which is influenced by psychological health, coping, and social support, among other psychosocial factors. The Seattle ALS Patient Project Database (SALSPPD) provides a unique opportunity for researchers to address established and novel hypotheses about disease progression and QOL in ALS.
Methods: The SALSPPD is a longitudinal dataset of people with ALS (n = 143) and their partners (spouses, significant others, or caregivers; n = 123) from clinics and community-based ALS support groups. Participants were interviewed in their homes every 3 months for up to 18 months between March 1987 and August 1989. Follow-up phone calls were completed in 1990, 1994, and 2008, primarily to ascertain disease outcomes.
Results: The provided data dictionary includes details of the over 500 variables measured in the study, which have been subsetted into domain datasets. Domains address physical, psychological, social, and behavioral status on the person with ALS and their partners. Missing data were coded according to their mechanism. Data are available in two formats: The person-level (wide) databases and the time-level (long) databases.
Discussion: The SALSPPD will provide a rich resource to scientists interested in the natural history of ALS, psychosocial effects on ALS outcomes and vice versa, and psychosocial and disease outcomes of treatments.
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Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine: an Open Access Journal (HPBM) publishes theoretical and empirical contributions on all aspects of research and practice into psychosocial, behavioral and biomedical aspects of health. HPBM publishes international, interdisciplinary research with diverse methodological approaches on: Assessment and diagnosis Narratives, experiences and discourses of health and illness Treatment processes and recovery Health cognitions and behaviors at population and individual levels Psychosocial an behavioral prevention interventions Psychosocial determinants and consequences of behavior Social and cultural contexts of health and illness, health disparities Health, illness and medicine Application of advanced information and communication technology.