Quality of life in adults with Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome

BMC Psychiatry

Table 5 Influence of the severity of tics, GTS and psychiatric symptoms on each dimension of QOL

WHOQOL-26 domains	Independent variables	R2 total	p value
Physical health	Depression*	0.4925	<0.0001
	VAS GTS	0.6003	0.0027
	Somatisation*	0.6120	0.0478
Psychological health	Depression*	0.5447	<0.0001
Social relationships	Depression*	0.2973	<0.0001
	Somatisation*	0.3669	0.0002
	Sensitivity*	0.4092	0.0023
	Anxiety*	0.4342	0.0161
	VAS GTS	0.4640	0.0074
Environment	Depression*	0.2332	<0.0001
	VAS GTS	0.2929	0.0009
	Somatisation*	0.3355	0.0039

VAS GTS visual analogue mean scores severity of Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome Psychiatric symptoms: SCL-90R: Symptom Checklist 90 Revised
WHOQOL-26: World Health Organisation Quality of Life-26; stepwise regression analysis.
* One of 10 factors of SCL-90R.

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