Abstract
Inspite of so much development in medical technology, Tuberculosis (TB) is still the problem for humans. Few studies, in Pakistan highlighted the factors that affect patients health related quality of life (HRQOL) with active TB. The aim of this study is to measure short form six dimension (Sf-6D) utility scores of patients with active TB of Sargodha district. 120 active TB patients were interviewed and short form-36 questionnaire was followed. District TB hospital of Sargodha district was visited. Results show that Utility scores of female patients were better than male, while patients belong to urban areas have better utility scores as compared to rural patients of TB. Indoor patient’s utility scores were better than outdoor patients. Disease severity, use of drugs, depression, pain and death threat were the factors that negatively affect the patients health related quality of life, while opportunity of leisure and income level increase patients HRQOL.
Highlights
First model is the demographic model, which shows the impact of demographic variables on health related quality of life (HRQOL) with active
Results show that Utility scores of female patients were better than male, while patients belong to urban areas have better utility scores as compared to rural patients of TB
The percentage of rural patients is 57.5, whereas 42.5 percent belongs to urban areas
Summary
First model is the demographic model, which shows the impact of demographic variables on HRQOL with active. T.B. second model shows the impact of medical variables, where independent variables are disease severity (dissevr), type of patient (patype) and use of drugs (drugus). Third model shows the impact of physical and psychological thinking of patient’s HRQOL, where pain (pain), depression (depr), sleep (sleep), log of income (lnincome), death threat (dthr) and opportunity of leisure (leisur) are independent variables
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