Cypriot Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Quality Of Life
Journal Title: Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research (BJSTR) - Year 2017, Vol 1, Issue 5
Abstract
The aim of the present study was to investigate the Quality of Life of patients suffering from IBD and the factors that might be affecting it. The idiopathic Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD) are chronic nosological entities negatively affecting the Quality Of Life of patients suffering from IBD in relation to the total population. Evaluating their Quality of Life is the basic constitution for evaluating their needs and for designing the suitable health care system to be provided. In the province of Larnaca the SIBDQ questionnaire translated in the Greek language was used to evaluate 100 patients suffering from Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s disease. We studied the Quality of Life as a dependent variable correlated with the independent variables that are the demographic and general characteristics of this patient group. The Idiopathic Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD) are nosological entities that are characterized by yearly recurrent immune activations and inflammation of the gastrointestinal tube. They are accompanied by relapses and remissions and are directly affecting the patients’ lives [1]. Investigating the factors that might affect the Quality of Life of IBD like any other chronic disease constitutes an extreme useful procedure as health systems of all developed countries have made a turn to higher standards of health care systems that corresponds to the needs and expectations of all health professionals [2]. Recognizing the parameters and characteristics of patients related to an unfavorable or better quality of life, creates the necessary conditions that can allow to design properly the provided health care system [3]. The current study constitutes of a population sample of 100 patients suffering from Inflammation Bowel Diseases being Ulcerative Colitis 60% and Crohn’s disease 40%. All of them being examined at the Endoscopic Unit of district hospitals in Cyprus. For evaluating their quality of Life a partial differentiation of the Greek translation of Short Inflammatory Bowel Disease Questionnaire (SIBDQ) [4], was used. Questionnaires were handed out to patients in personal by the researcher. For the statistic analysis of the research data was used regtration and the statistical software program IBM SPSS Statistics v.20 was used with a minimum level of statistical significance of p≤0.05.
Authors and Affiliations
Maria Tsoukka, Eleni Jelastopulu, George Charalambous, Panagiota Evangelou
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- EP ID EP573874
- DOI 10.26717/BJSTR.2017.01.000439
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