Authors : Sonia Dhiman, Rekha Bansal, Dinesh Kansal, Parveen K. Sharma
DOI : 10.18231/2393-9087.2018.0014
Volume : 5
Issue : 2
Year : 0
Page No : 62-65
Objectives: Assessment of Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) of drug resistant tuberculosis patients at the start of treatment under PMDT regime.
Materials and Methods: This observational study was conducted on a cohort of 172 drug resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) patients at the time of registration under PMDT regime. Patients who started their treatment between January 2016 and December 2016 were included in the study after approval from IEC. A validated WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire was used for interviewing the patients. This questionnaire assesses HRQoL on 0-100 transforming scale in four domains – Physical, Psychological, Social relationship and Environmental.
Results: Out of 172 participants, 50 (29.1%) were females and 122(70.9%) were males. Their mean age±SD was 40.23±15.77 years. 77.9% participants were married. 97.7% of them were residing in rural areas. Most of the participants were from district Mandi (33.1%) and Kangra (20.9%). Scores of Physical domain were 39.76±13.88; Psychological domain were 37.23±14.89; Social relationship domain were 43.28±13.48 and Environment domain were 50.66±9.13. Overall HRQoL scores were 42.73±10.11.
Conclusion: Chronic diseases like tuberculosis affect all domains of HRQoL and there is need to consider HRQoL domains of patients of DR-TB along with smear positivity and mortality to evaluate the success of any national heath programme.
Keywords:Drug resistant tuberculosis, Health related quality of life, WHO-QOL BREF