Evidence map›Paper›PMID 31413893›Full record

ArticleTremor and other hyperkinetic movements (New York, N.Y.)2019

Sensory Tricks Are Associated with Higher Sleep-Related Quality of Life in Cervical Dystonia.

Casey N Benadof, Elizabeth Cisneros, Mark I Appelbaum, Glenn T Stebbins, Cynthia L Comella, David A Peterson

Open access · greenAbstract read
PubMed Full text at PMC Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Tremor and other hyperkinetic movements (New York, N.Y.), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 37% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. It's tricky: Rating alleviating maneuvers in cervical dystonia.Journal of the neurological sciences · 2020
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Casey N BenadofInstitute for Neural Computation, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Elizabeth CisnerosInstitute for Neural Computation, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Mark I AppelbaumDepartment of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Glenn T StebbinsDepartment of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA.
Cynthia L ComellaDepartment of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA.
David A PetersonInstitute for Neural Computation, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
University of California, San Diego · USRush University Medical Center · US

Funding

Dystonia CoalitionU54NS065701 · NINDS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI JINNAH, HYDER A · 2009 to 2014
$7.0M
Dystonia CoalitionU54TR001456 · NCATS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI JINNAH, HYDER A · 2015 to 2016
$2.5M
NCATS NIH HHS U54 TR001456NINDS NIH HHS U54 NS065701
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Sensory tricks are compensatory gestures that cervical dystonia (CD) patients use to reduce abnormal neck posture and movements. Although sensory tricks are common in CD, little is known about whether trick efficacy changes over time or has effect on quality of life. Methods: We analyzed clinical data and video recordings from 188 patients with isolated CD. We calculated the duration of CD and assessed the Toronto Western Spasmodic Torticollis Rating Scales and the Cervical Dystonia Impact Profile (CDIP-58). Results: A longer duration of CD corresponded to a less effective sensory trick (r(187) = 0.1901, p = 0.009). Patients who demonstrated more effective sensory tricks reported higher sleep-related quality of life than patients with less effective sensory tricks (r(187) = 0.1680, p = 0.0212). There were no significant relationships between the effectiveness of a sensory trick and the other aspects of quality of life as measured by the CDIP-58. Discussion: Patients who have had CD longer had less effective sensory tricks consistent with patients' verbal reports of previously having a trick that no longer works. Patients should be apprised of a wide variety of sensory tricks because their previous tricks may lose efficacy over time and because more effective tricks are associated with higher sleep-related quality of life.

Indexed as

Quality of LifeAdultAgedDystonic DisordersFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedMovementSleepTorticollisTouchcervical dystoniaquality of lifeSensory tricksleep

Identifiers

PMID31413893
PMCPMC6691623
OpenAlexW2985274449

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC-ND
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.