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Scholars Journal of Applied Medical Sciences | Volume-2 | Issue-06
Assessment Quality of Life (QoL) of TB patients registered in Tuberculosis units of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation area by using WHO Short Form -36 (SF- 36) questionnaire
Patel P G, Ramanuj V, Bala D V
Published: Dec. 28, 2014 |
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DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2014.v02i06.089
Pages: 3303-3306
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Abstract
Tuberculosisin India accounts for 1/3rd of global burden. Health care to be comprehensive in true sense must
include not only the indicators of changes in frequency and severity of disease but also an estimation of well being
therefore this study was carried out to assess Quality of Life in patients with Tuberculosis. Total 180 Tuberculosis
patients with tuberculosis who registered before 1st April 2013 were included in the study by using multi stage sampling
method. We had selected 3 TUs by random sampling from 10 TUs of AMC and out of them in each TUs we had selected
3 DOTS Centre randomly. From each DOTS centre we had taken 10 Sputum positive newly diagnosed, 6 category II (2
for each defaulter, relapse, failure), 2 MDR and 2 HIV patients. We excluded paediatric patients. Thus, a total of 180
cases were interviewed using a pre-designed, pre-tested questionnaire. Socio-demographic data, perception about the
Quality of Life (QoL) was collected using WHO QoL SF 36questionnaire. Mean age of cases was 33.3+11.7years and
124 (68.9%) were male. The mean score of all domains was 53.4 with SD of 11.2.The worst affected domains were
vitality (44.6 +13.8), general health (45.7+ 18.7) and mental health (47.7 + 16.6). MDR patients had lower mean score
for physical health (56.3 + 15.2), vitality (35.8 + 13.5) and pain (46.3 + 16.1) as compared to other TB category patients.