Effects of Depression and/or Anxiety on the Outcomes of Hip Arthroscopy for Femoroacetabular Impingement and Labral Tears: A Minimum 5-Year Follow-up Study.

Abstract

Background: Depression and anxiety are recognized as adverse prognostic factors in various orthopaedic surgical interventions. The aim of this study is to report the intermediate-term outcomes of hip arthroscopy for the treatment of femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) and labral tears in patients with depression and/or anxiety.

Materials and methods: Data were retrospectively analyzed for patients with a self-reported history of depression and/or anxiety who had undergone primary hip arthroscopy for the treatment of FAI and labral tears from 2008 to 2018. Included patients had at least 1 of the following patient-reported outcome (PRO) scores: the modified Harris hip score (mHHS), Non-Arthritic Hip Score (NAHS), Hip Outcome Score-Sports-Specific Subscale (HOS-SSS), International Hip Outcome Tool (iHOT-12), patient satisfaction, Short Form 12-Mental (SF-M), Veterans RAND 12 Item-Mental (VR-M), and visual analog scale (VAS) for pain, or a revision procedure during the study period. Patients were propensity-matched with a benchmark control group of patients without depression and/or anxiety, in a 1:1 ratio, to control for confounding variables. Clinically relevant thresholds, revision procedures, and survivorship rates were also included in the analysis.

Results: One hundred and twenty-five hips in patients with depression and/or anxiety were included in the study and were successfully matched to 125 control hips in patients without depression and/or anxiety. The depression/anxiety cohort demonstrated significant improvement in all functional outcome scores, with a magnitude of improvement that was comparable with that in the control group. However, the depression/anxiety group started with significantly lower preoperative scores for the HOS-SSS, SF-M, and VR-M; ended with lower intermediate-term scores for the mHHS, NAHS, HOS-SSS, SF-M, and VR-M; and had lower rates of achievement of patient-acceptable symptom state (PASS) thresholds for the mHHS and HOS-SSS. There was no significant difference between the 2 groups with regard to secondary procedures and complications.

Conclusion: Hip arthroscopy for the treatment of FAI and labral tears in patients with depression and/or anxiety resulted in significant intermediate-term improvements in functional and health-related quality-of-life scales. However, compared with a benchmark control group, the functional scores in this patient population started lower and ended lower. In addition, the patients in the depression/anxiety cohort had a lower rate of achieving PASS thresholds than those in the control group.

Level of evidence: Prognostic Level III. See Instructions for Authors for a complete description of levels of evidence.