DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2017.v05i03.001

Pages: 690-693

Thalassaemia is an increasingly serious public health problem especially in developing countries like India. The aim is to compare the quality of life of thalassemic patients with healthy children. This comparative study was conducted at paeditrics department of a teaching tertiary care hospital in Pune city. Quality of life of thalassemic patients was compared with healthy children by using PedsQL Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) module. Statistical analysis: for descriptive data mean and standard deviation were used. Student two tailed t test was used as test of significance. Total 56 children were included in the study, out which 28 children were thalassemic patients and 28 were children were healthy. The mean age of the study participants was 6.018 years (SD=2.55 years). The scores of all four PedsQL domains (Physical, Emotional, Social and School functioning) of thalassemic patients were statistically significantly lower than those of the healthy children (p < 0.001). Among thalassemic patients there was no difference observed in gender-wise (p> 0.05). Quality of life of thalassemic patients was lower compared to quality of life of healthy children.