Association of anxiety features with subsequent mechanical ventilation in adjusted logistic regression models
| OR (95% CI) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | STAI-Y113 | GBS questionnaire | Anxiety-VAS | Dyspnoea-VAS | Most stressful |
| Arm grade*>2 | 7.56 (2.28 to 25.1) | 6.72 (2.02 to 22.4) | 8.05 (2.44 to 26.6) | 7.73 (2.32 to 25.8) | 7.53 (2.21 to 25.6) |
| GBS onset to admission (as log) | 0.33 (0.14 to 0.79) | 0.40 (0.18 to 0.89) | 0.44 (0.20 to 0.98) | 0.47 (0.21 to 1.05) | 0.39 (0.16 to 0.92) |
| STAI-Y1 | 2.82 (0.85 to 9.39) | ||||
| GBS questionnaire total score | 5.15 (1.06 to 24.9) | ||||
| Anxiety-VAS score | 1.08 (0.44 to 2.64) | ||||
| Dyspnoea-VAS score | 1.28 (0.46 to 3.57) | ||||
| Uncertainty as most frightening | 4.05 (1.26 to 13.0) | ||||
*Arm grade: 0, normal; 1, minor symptoms or signs but able to put hand on top of head when sitting with head upright and able to oppose the thumb to each fingertip; 2, able to do either of the tasks in 1 but not both; 3, some movements but unable to perform either of the tasks in 2; 4, no movement and 5, dead.15
GBS, Guillain-Barré syndrome; STAI-Y1, State Trait Anxiety Inventory-Y1; VAS, visual analogical scale.