ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF TUBERCULOSIS PATIENTS AT THE DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL MEDICINE III- HANOI LUNG HOSPITAL, 2020

Abstract

Objective: Quality of life (QoL) assessment and finding out some factors related to QoL of inpatients tuberculosis (TB) at Internal Medicine Department III - Hanoi Lung Hospital, 2020. Methods: Descriptive cross-sectional study, performed on 171 TB patients at Department III - Hanoi Lung Hospital from June to November 2020 using the SF 36.V2 scale. Results: The SF36.V2 scale is a reliable scale for assessing QoL for TB cases at the Department of Internal Medicine III, Hanoi Lung Hospital, in 2020, with Cronbach'anpha of the scale and Cronbach'anpha for all 8 regions > 0.7. The QoL score of TB patients is at the average low level: 1922.2 +/- 699.7; with the physical health field average: 1126 +/- 476.3. Average score in the mental health domain: 796.2 +/- 277.5. Tuberculosis patients over 60 years old have lower QoL and the risk of being affected by QoL is 4.5 times higher than those of 41 to 60 years old (p <0.05) and 5, 05 times higher than diseases under 40 years old (p <0.05). TB cases with comorbid diseases were 3.2 times more likely to be affected than those without comorbid diseases (CI: 1.1- 9.3; p = 0.025). The loss of body weight affects QoL of people with tuberculosis, patients with a loss of body weight within the previous 1 to 2 months have a 4.04 times higher risk of developing QoL than who haven’t loss their body weight (CI: 1,2-13,1; p = 0.013). Conclusion: TB cases have moderately low QoL in both physical and mental domains. The physical health field scores were positively and closely correlated with the mental health field scores. TB patients has risk of being affected by QoL include: the elderly; people with a loss of body weight; people with comorbid diseases such as HIV, diabetes, high blood pressure.