Quality of life of schizophrenic patients in a tertiary care hospital in Bangladesh

Schizophrenia is one of the major mental disorders which affect individuals thinking ability, social interaction or attention. It affects persons entire quality of life. The purpose of the study was to find out the quality of life of schizophrenic patient in Bangladesh. Cross sectional study design was used to conduct this study. The convenient sampling procedure was used throughout the process of participants selection and the numbers of respondents were 83. The study was carried out at National Institute of Mental Health and Hospital (NIMH), Dhaka. Data was collected by using face to face interview with a structured questionnaire WHOQOL-BREF (The World Health Organization Quality of Life- BREF) scale. It was found that most of the participants lead poor to moderate quality of life in four domains of the WHOQOL-BREF scale. Results showed that mean scores were for physical health (mean 2.7, SD+0.106); psychological health (mean 2.108, SD +0.0787); social relationship (mean 2.226; SD+0.116) and environmental health (mean 2.47; SD+0.077).This study indicated that, quality of life poor on psychological domain. It was also found statistically significance with age and social relationship domain (p value 0.005< 0.05); marital status and physical health domain (p value 0.004<0.05); educational level and physical health domain (p value 0.005<0.05) and environmental health domain (p value 0.025<0.05). There were no statistically significant difference between gender and other variables. Schizophrenia affects all aspects of persons life such as physically, psychologically, socially and economically. Schizophrenic patients as well as their family members led very poor quality of life.Bang J Psychiatry June 2015; 29(1): 30-34

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Correlation Between Stress and Quality of Life Experienced by Caregivers: Perception of a Group of Healthcare Professionals

The Open Nursing Journal ◽

10.2174/1874434601711010135 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 135-141 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Bhárbara Karolline Rodrigues Silva ◽

Fernando Rodrigues Peixoto Quaresma ◽

Erika da Silva Maciel ◽

Francisco Winter dos Santos Figueiredo ◽

Jonathan Souza Sarraf ◽

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Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Physical Health ◽

Human Beings ◽

Total Quality ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Significance Level ◽

Life Score ◽

Health Domain ◽

Physical Health Domain

Aim:This study aims to evaluate the relationship between perceived level of stress and quality of life of professionals working in Prompt Service Units in the city of Palmas, Tocantins.Methods:A cross-sectional study was performed among 164 professionals from Prompt Service Units. Stress levels were evaluated using the Perceived Stress Scale. The WHOQOL-bref was used to evaluate the perception of quality of life. Quantitative variables distribution was evaluated using Shapiro-Wilk's test. For the analyses of correlations among perceived level of stress, total quality of life score, and the physical health domain of the WHOQOL-bref, Pearson's correlation test was applied. The significance level adopted for this trial was 95%. The study was approved by the Committee of Ethics in Research with Human Beings.Results:When assessing the perceived level of stress with the total quality of life score, there was no significant correlation between those variables. However, there was an association between the perceived level of stress and the physical health domain of quality of life.Conclusion:Perceived quality of life was correlated with the physical health domain, and this result reinforces the importance of the facets that make up this area.

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Determination of Quality of life in patients with chronic renal disease undergoing hemodialysis; a tertiary care experience

Advanced Emergency Medicine ◽

10.18686/aem.v7.116 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Muhammad Tayyab Shera ◽

Syeda Beenish Bareeqa ◽

Syed Ijlal Ahmed ◽

Syeda Sana Samar ◽

Muhammad Mishkat Junaid ◽

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Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Renal Disease ◽

Physical Health ◽

Environmental Health ◽

Psychological Health ◽

Chronic Renal Disease ◽

Tertiary Care ◽

Healthcare Services ◽

P Value

OBJECTIVE: Our objective is to determine the quality of life in chronic renal disease patients, to evaluate the pros and cons of dialysis in improving the QOL and to suggest an improved system of healthcare services provided to the patients.INTRODUCTION: Chronic kidney disease (CKD), also known as chronic renal disease, is a progressive loss in renal function over a period of months or years. In medicine, Dialysis is a process for removing waste and excess water from the blood, and is used primarily as an artificial replacement for lost kidney function in people with renal failure. Chronic renal disease has many complications which can decrease the Quality of Life.MATERIAL AND METHODS: A prospective case control study was conducted on 40 patients admitted to urology department of Mayo Hospital, Lahore for hemodylasis. Data was collected on a preformed questionnaire of WHO about quality of life. Some demographic variables like age, education and income of the patient were added to the standard WHOQoL questionnaire.RESULTS: WHOQoL questionnaire for both case and control groups had a significant p-value in four domains including overall quality of life (p=0.001), physical health (p=0.001), psychological health (p=0.001) and environmental health (p=0.001).CONCLUSION: CKD treatment and in particular dialysis can decrease the quality of life due to multiple effects. The major aspects of life affected in an individual undergoing dialysis are physical health, psychological health and environmental health.

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Frailty decreases physical health domain of quality of life in nursing home elderly

Zinc supplementation improves heme biosynthesis in rats exposed to lead ◽

10.18051/univmed.2015.v34.213-219 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 34 (3) ◽

pp. 213 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Yvonne Suzy Handajani ◽

Nelly Tina Widjaja ◽

Yuda Turana

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Nursing Home ◽

Physical Health ◽

Psychological Health ◽

Negative Impact ◽

Frailty Syndrome ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Health Domain ◽

Physical Health Domain

BACKGROUND Approximately 10-27% of the population aged >65 years suffers from frailty. The percentage increases with age so that the prevalence of frailty in the population aged >85 years reaches 45%. The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between frailty and quality of life (QOL) in nursing home elderly. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study of 138 subjects aged >60 years who were recruited from 4 nursing homes in West Jakarta. Participants with frailty status were evaluated by the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) instrument and QOL was evaluated by the WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire. One-way ANOVA and chi-square tests were used to find relations between the frailty syndrome and QOL. RESULTS The percentages of respondents with pre-frail, frail, and non-frail status were 30.4%, 52.2%, and 17.4%, respectively. A decline in QOL scores of pre-frail and frail respondents was found for almost all QOL domains (physical, psychological and environment domains), except social relationships. The subdomains most influenced were “energy and fatigue” in the physical health domain, “thinking, learning, memory and concentration” in psychological health, and “opportunities for acquiring new information and skills” in the environment domain. CONCLUSIONS More than half of the nursing home elderly were frail and one-third were pre-frail. The main factor of frailty was weakness. The frailty syndrome in the elderly has a negative impact on QOL, especially in the physical health, psychological and environment domains in nursing home elderly.

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Health Related Quality of life of Diabetic and Non-Diabetic Elderly in a Municipality of Central Nepal

Journal of College of Medical Sciences-Nepal ◽

10.3126/jcmsn.v17i2.30499 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 17 (2) ◽

pp. 170-179

Author(s):

Srijana Sapkota ◽

Jiwan Kumar Poudyal ◽

Rajani Shah ◽

Kanchan Thapa

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Environmental Health ◽

Social Relationship ◽

Family Type ◽

World Health ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Healthy Elderly ◽

Health Related Qol ◽

Health Related

Background: Quality of life (QoL) is the perception of an individual about their position in life. Chronic diseases such as diabetes are said to have influence on QoL. Health condition changes with increased age and chronic disease condition. This study aimed to assess Health-Related QoL of diabetic and non-diabetic elderly. Method: A community based cross-sectional study was conducted among 167 elderly in Gaindakot municipality of Nawalpur, Nepal. Health related QoL was assessed using World Health Organization QoL Instrument scale. Data was analyzed using descriptive as well as inferential statistics. Results: Among the diabetic respondents, highest mean score was obtained in social relationship (68.76), whereas environmental health (69.02) holds highest mean score among non-diabetic. Non-diabetics were in better position in terms of both psychological (63.23 vs 55.77) and physical health (62.23 vs 57.15) than diabetics. Overall QoL and overall health perception were found to be significantly correlated with all domains of QoL at (p<0.05) and (p<0.01) respectively among diabetics. Age group, gender, educational status, marital status and employment status were found to be statistically associated with different domains of QoL in both groups but caste, family type smoking and alcohol intake didn’t show any association with any of the domain of QoL in both groups. Conclusion: Three domains of Health Related QoL (physical, psychological and environmental health) except social relationship were better among non-diabetic compared to that of diabetic respondents. Preventing diabetes and focusing on physical, psychological and environmental health of diabetics are required for a healthy elderly life.

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Quality of life and its determinants in students of medical and non-medical education

International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health ◽

10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20201964 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 (5) ◽

pp. 1664

Author(s):

Muhammad H. Ameer ◽

Noman Khalid ◽

Saad Asghar

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Medical Education ◽

Medical Students ◽

Physical Health ◽

Social Relationships ◽

Health Domain ◽

Environmental Domain ◽

The Mean ◽

Physical Health Domain

Background: This study was conducted to find and compare the quality of life of medical and non-medical students using a WHO questionnaire.Methods: The cross-sectional study was conducted at Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan Medical and Dental College, University of the Punjab and University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Lahore. The shortened version of WHO Quality of Life questionnaire was used. Consecutive non-probability sampling was utilized to collect data which was analysed using SPSS 21.Results: Of the 450 questionnaires distributed, 400 qualified for the analysis. Out of 200 medical students’ questionnaires, 118 were filled by male and 82 by female medical students. The mean age of medical students participating in this study was 20.425±1.498 years. Of the 200 qualified non-medical questionnaires, 111 were filled by male and 89 by female non-medical students. The mean age of non-medical students was 20.995±1.645 years. Medical students’ environmental domain showed the highest mean score 65.52±14.82 followed by social relationships 62.39±13.98, psychological domain 59.84±13.64 and physical health domain 54.89±12.03. Non-medical students’ environmental domain had the highest mean score 64.18±15.67 followed by psychological domain 62.45±13.62, social relationships domain 59.82±14.42 and physical health domain 57.04±12.98. The scores of four domains were found to be significantly different in both disciplines (medical education and non-medical education).Conclusions: The results of present study emphasize on the need to look into all the parameters of physical health, psychological health, social relationships and environment of medical and non-medical institutes to improve the quality of life of students.

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Evaluation of quality of life among dental students using WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire in Saudi Arabia: A cross sectional study

Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences ◽

10.12669/pjms.35.3.213 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 35 (3) ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Nouf Al-Shibani ◽

Reem Al-Kattan

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Physical Health ◽

Social Relationship ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Dental Students ◽

P Value ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

King Saud University ◽

Environmental Domain

Objective: The objective was to use modified version of WHOQOL-BREF to assess the wellbeing and QOL of dental students of King Saud University based on four major domains. Methods: The questionnaire related to the survey was distributed to all dental students (N= 782) who were enrolled from 1st year to 5th year in College of Dentistry, King Saud University in the fall of 2018. The questionnaire comprised of four domains having different set of questions i.e. Physical domain, Psychological domain, Environmental domain and Social relationship domain. Two stand-alone questions related to (Overall Quality of life and Satisfaction with health) were also part of the WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire. Cronbach’s Alpha was used to assess the reliability of the WHOQOL-BREF domains. Paired t-tests were conducted to compare the means of the four domains and chi-square. Chi-square test was used to find association of demographic characteristics with four domains and two stand-alone questions. Results: The overall quality of life and satisfaction with health of the dental students was found to be satisfactorily favorable with environmental domain and moderately favorable with social relationship and physical health domains. Physical health domain with psychological domain was statistically significant (p-value <0.001) whereas physical health domain with social relationship and environmental domain was also found to be statistically significant (p-value <0.001). Respondents, who highly rated their overall quality of life and satisfaction with health, had higher domain scores. Conclusion: In the present study, overall quality of life and satisfaction with health of dental students in King Saud University was found to be satisfactorily favorable. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.35.3.213 How to cite this:Al-Shibani N, Al-Kattan R. Evaluation of quality of life among dental students using WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire in Saudi Arabia: A cross sectional study. Pak J Med Sci. 2019;35(3):---------. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.35.3.213 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Quality-of-life among Syrian refugees residing outside camps in Jordan relative to Jordanians and other countries

PeerJ ◽

10.7717/peerj.6454 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 ◽

pp. e6454 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Nour Abdo ◽

Faten Sweidan ◽

Anwar Batieha

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Socioeconomic Status ◽

Physical Health ◽

Psychological Health ◽

Syrian Refugees ◽

Health Domain ◽

Environmental Domain ◽

Significant Difference ◽

Physical Health Domain

Background Since the beginning of the Syrian humanitarian crisis, Syrians sought refuge in many safer countries. Many aspects of Syrian refugees’ lives have been affected, hence affecting the overall quality of their lives. However, only one study has investigated their quality of life (QOL). The aim of this study was to assess the QOL of Syrian refugees residing outside camps in Jordan and compare it to the QOL of Jordanians and to other refugees and populations around the globe. Methods Data were obtained from Syrian refugees residing outside camps in Jordan, and from two Jordanian groups; low socioeconomic status (LSES) Jordanians and average socioeconomic status (ASES) Jordanians in 2017. A total of 661 Syrians, 208 LSES Jordanians and 714 ASES Jordanians, aged between 18 and 75 years were included. The World Health Organization Quality of Life instrument (WHOQOL-BREF) questionnaire was used as the QOL assessment tool. Analysis of Variance “ANOVA” and post hoc Tukey-Honest tests were used to find the differences between the means of QOL questions in the three groups (Syrians, ASES, and LSES). Stepwise multivariate linear regression was performed for each domain to determine the most associated risk factors. Results No significant difference was found between Syrian refugees and LSES Jordanians in the physical health domain. Syrian refugees scored significantly lower than LSES Jordanians in the psychological health and social relationship domain. Syrian refugees scored significantly higher than LSES Jordanians in the environmental domain. ASES Jordanians scored significantly higher than the other two groups in all domains, with all its scores above the average. Discussion Despite the support Jordan provides to the Syrian refugees, they still seem to suffer from poor psychological health, social relationships and environmental domains, with scores below 50 on (0–100) scale. Nonetheless, no significant difference was found between Syrian refugees and LSES Jordanians in the physical health domain, furthermore they scored significantly higher than LSES Jordanians in the environmental domain despite both scoring below 50 on (0–100) scale in this domain. Physical, psychological, and social domains were mainly affected by having a job, having higher income, and being married and free from diseases.

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Quality of life evaluation in patients with mucopolysaccharidosis using PedsQL

Journal of Child Health Care ◽

10.1177/1367493518787319 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 23 (2) ◽

pp. 278-285 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Marcos Almeida Matos ◽

Fábio Ferri-de-Barros ◽

Roberto Guarniero

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Physical Health ◽

Internal Consistency ◽

Psychosocial Health ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Health Domain ◽

Pedsql 4.0 ◽

Physical Health Domain

Mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) is a rare and neglected disorder. Only a few studies to date have focused on humanistic impacts of the disease, particularly health-related quality of life (HRQOL). The objective of our research is to (1) evaluate HRQOL in Brazilian patients with MPS and (2) assess the validity of the PedsQL 4.0 Generic Core Scales (PedsQL) in this specific disease. We performed an analytical cross-sectional study using the Brazilian Portuguese version of the PedsQL in 22 patients with MPS between the ages of 8 and 21. With regard to assessing the validity of the PedsQL for MPS, we evaluated internal consistency using Cronbach’s α coefficient and reliability using the Spearman–Brown estimate of agreement. The mean HRQOL score in our sample was 63.6 points. The worst score was obtained in the Psychosocial domain (61.9) on account of interference with school (56.1), while the Physical Health domain had the highest score (67.6). The total PedsQL internal consistency was .764 points. The Physical Health domain obtained the highest internal consistency (.914), whereas the Psychosocial Health domain obtained the lowest one (.754). MPS was demonstrated to decrease HRQOL, and PedsQL seems to be a valid instrument to perform this kind of analysis.

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Pengaruh Self-Disclosure dan Quality Of Life Terhadap Kepuasan Pernikahan Pada Wanita Karier

TAZKIYA JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY ◽

10.15408/tazkiya.v6i2.10997 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

Author(s):

I’lair Rosyida

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Physical Health ◽

Social Relationships ◽

Social Relationship ◽

P Value ◽

Self Disclosure ◽

Probability Sampling ◽

Independent Variables

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui seberapa besar pengaruh dari dimensi variabel self disclosure (relationship, sexual, money, imbalance) dan dari dimensi variabel quality of life (physical health, psychological, social relationships, environment ) terhadap kepuasan pernikahan pada wanita karier. Sampel berjumlah 178 wanita karier yang diambil dengan teknik non-probability sampling. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa dimensi dari variabel self disclosure dan dimensi dari variabel quality of life terhadap kepuasan pernikahan pada wanita karier. Namun, dilihat dari tabel koefisien, dari delapan independent variables hanya satu yang berpengaruh signifikan terhadap kepuasan pada wanita karier yaitu psychological (p-value<0.05). Sedangkan relationship, sexual, money, imbalance, physical health, social relationship dan environment tidak signifikan mempengaruhi kepuasan pernikahan pada wanita karier.

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Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS): Major Impact on Lives of Both Patients and Family Members

Medicina ◽

10.3390/medicina57010043 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 57 (1) ◽

pp. 43

Author(s):

Esme Brittain ◽

Nina Muirhead ◽

Andrew Y. Finlay ◽

Jui Vyas

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome ◽

Physical Health ◽

Family Members ◽

Chronic Fatigue ◽

Myalgic Encephalomyelitis ◽

World Health ◽

Life Questionnaire ◽

Fatigue Syndrome

Background and objectives: To explore the impacts that Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) has on the patient and their family members using the WHOQOL-BREF (Abbreviated World Health Organisation Quality of Life questionnaire) and FROM-16 (Family Reported Outcome Measure-16) quality of life assessments. Materials and Methods: A quantitative research study using postal questionnaires was conducted. A total of 39 adult volunteers expressed an interest in participating in the study: 24 returned appropriately completed questionnaires. Patients with ME/CFS completed the WHOQOL-BREF and up to four of their family members completed the FROM-16 questionnaire. Results: ME/CFS negatively affects the quality of life of the patient (median scores WHOQOL-BREF: Physical health = 19, Psychological = 44, Social relationships = 37.5, Environment = 56, n = 24) and their family members’ quality of life (FROM-16: Emotional = 9.5, Personal and social = 11.5, Overall = 20.5, n = 42). There was a significant correlation between the patient’s reported quality of life scores and their family members’ mean FROM-16 total scores. Conclusions: This study identifies the major impact that having an adult family member with ME/CFS has on the lives of partners and of other family members. Quality of life of ME/CFS patients was reduced most by physical health compared to the other domains. Quality of life of family members was particularly impacted by worry, family activities, frustration and sadness. This highlights the importance of measuring the impact on the lives of family members using tools such as the FROM-16 in the ME/CFS clinical encounter and ensuring appropriate support is widely available to family members.

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