Prediction of caregiver quality of life in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis using explainable machine learning.

Scientific Reports
Anna Markella AntoniadiCatherine Mooney

Abstract

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a rare neurodegenerative, fatal and currently incurable disease. People with ALS need support from informal caregivers due to the motor and cognitive decline caused by the disease. This study aims to identify caregivers whose quality of life (QoL) may be impacted as a result of caring for a person with ALS. In this study, we worked towards the identification of the predictors of a caregiver's QoL in addition to the development of a model for clinical use to alert clinicians when a caregiver is at risk of experiencing low QoL. The data were collected through the Irish ALS Registry and via interviews on several topics with 90 patient and caregiver pairs at three time-points. The McGill QoL questionnaire was used to assess caregiver QoL-the MQoL Single Item Score measures the overall QoL and was selected as the outcome of interest in this work. The caregiver's existential QoL and burden, as well as the patient's depression and employment before the onset of symptoms were the features that had the highest impact in predicting caregiver quality of life. A small subset of features that could be easy to collect was used to develop a second model to use it in a clinical setting. The most predictiv...Continue Reading

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