Abstract
Bronchiectasis is a chronic suppurative lung disease that significantly impacts the patients' quality of life. Aim of this study is to evaluate the relationship between life of quality and patient's psychological status and bronchiectasis disease severity indexes in patients with non-Cystic Fibrosis (CF) bronchiectasis. We also aimed to investigate the validity and reliability of Turkish version of Quality-of-Life Questionnaire-Bronchiectasis (QoL-B V3.1) in Turkish adult bronchiectatic patients. 90 stable non-CF bronchiectatic adult patients were enrolled into this study. At baseline, dyspnea score, BMI, lung function tests, sputum cultures, number of exacerbations and hospital admissions, disease severity indexes were recorded. All of the participants underwent quality of life assessment using both QoL-B V3.1 and of Short-Form (SF)-36 questionnaires, psychological status was evaluated by using HADS (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale). In all study participants, anxiety was diagnosed in 27/90 (30%) of patients and depression was diagnosed in 37/90 (41%) of patients. Patients with anxiety and depression had lower quality of life scores in various domains (p:0.026-p:0.001) and HADS scores negatively correlated with several quality-of-life domains (r=-0.216 - r=- 0.343). Female patients had higher risk for depression (55% vs 22%, p:0.002) and worse quality of life than males (p:0.016-p:0.038). Several life quality scores of both instruments were worse in patients with moderate-severe disease severity indexes when compared with those of mild groups. Moreover, Turkish version of newly described QoL-B V3.1 questionnaire was found to be reliable and valid instrument to evaluate the quality of life. These results emphasize the importance of mental health and disease severity as significant determinants of the life quality in patients particularly female patients with non-CF bronchiectasis.
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