Influence factors for quality of life in functional dyspepsia outpatients

Abstract

Objective To investigate the influence factors for quality of life in functional dyspepsia (FD) outpatients. Methods Based on purposive sampling, 268 FD outpatients from a grade III class A hospital were selected from January to June 2014. The participants were assessed by using the functional dyspepsia-related quality of life (FDDQL) scale, FD self-efficacy scale, Zung self-rating anxiety scale (SAS) , and depression self-rating scale (SDS) . Results The total score for FDDQL was (57.78±7.45) in the participants. FDDQL was significantly different in people with different genders or SAS scores (P 0.05) . FDDQL had a positive association with gender, self-efficacy, and BMI, but had a negative association with SAS, SDS, and symptom severity (P<0.05) . Thus, the risk factors appeared to include anxiety, symptom severity, course of disease, self-efficacy, and depression in FD outpatients. Conclusions FD outpatients tend to have a low quality of life and need more concerns and management. During the nursing intervention, nurses should pay more attention to the mental status such as anxiety in patients with a short course of disease, severe symptom, and/or less self-efficacy. Patients should improve their ability of self-management to achieve a higher quality of life. Key words: Quality of life; Functional dyspepsia; Outpatient; Influence factors; Self-efficacy