DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2014.v02i06.089

Pages: 3303-3306

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.