Health related quality of life in pediatric patients with inflammatory bowel disease

Abstract

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a group of chronic pathologies that have impli cations in several factors that affect the quality of life in pediatric patients. To describe the health related quality of life (HRQL) in pediatric patients with IBD. A Multicenter cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted. Patients aged between 8-18 and with IBD diagnosis were included; IMPACT III quality of life questionnaire and a sociodemographic questionnaire were applied between September 2015 and January 2017. A total of 30 pa tients were recruited, 60% male, with an average age of 13.6 years. 80% of patients were diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis (UC). The predominant pharmacological treatment was combined therapy in 63.3%, being the most frequent aminosalicylates and immunomodulator. The IMPACT III quality of life score had an average of 129,5 points and when analyzing by section, there was no statistically significant difference between the averages. In our sample, there was no correlation between HRQoL and the number of flares, disease duration gender. This is a first approach to the study of HRQoL in pediatric patients in Chile. Since HRQoL is an important aspect to be explored in the routine evaluation of IBD patients, the identification of a lower HRQoL is the first step to perform interventions in these patients, thus we recommend performing this measurement as a screening method in all of them.