Health-related Quality of Life in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis: Its Determination and Correlation with Relevant Factors

Authors

  • Iftikhar Haider Naqvi
  • Muhamad Salman
  • Sadia Siddiqui

Keywords:

Cirrhosis of the liver, Child Turcotte Pugh, Model of end-stage liver disease, Health related quality of life

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To determine the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among patients with Cirrhosis of the liver using a short form of liver disease quality of life (SF-LDQOL) instrument, also to correlate HRQOL scores with relevant factors.
METHODOLOGY: This prospective, cross-sectional study was carried out in the medical department of Civil Hospital Karachi from May 2021 to April 2022. One hundred ninety-seven confirmed cases of Cirrhosis from either gender over 18 years of age without malignancy, HIV infection, or Psychiatric/Neurological diseases were enrolled using convenient sampling. The SF-LDQOL instrument assessed HRQOL, summarizing overall disease-targeted HRQOL (0 to 100), where a higher score shows good HRQOL or otherwise.
RESULTS: Using SPSS version 23, the SF-LDQOL score was 44±7.3. The severity of liver cirrhosis by CTP-A correlated weakly (-0.1294), while CTP B and CTP C strongly correlated with SF-LDQOL scores (-0.9894 and -0.9912), respectively. The p-value for CTP A (0.705) is insignificant; however, for CTP B and C (p < 0.00001 & p < 0.00001) is significant. Demographically, the age and income status correlated strongly to SF-LDQOL scores, displaying considerable p-values (p <0.00001 and p < 0.00001).
CONCLUSION: Most patients had compromised HRQOL as assessed by well-validated and more disease-specific tool SF-LDQOL score. HRQOL correlated positively with the severity of Cirrhosis by applying CTP and Model of end-stage liver disease (MELD) scoring. Sociodemographic parameters of age and income status also correlated well with HRQOL.  
KEYWORDS: Cirrhosis of the liver, Child Turcotte Pugh, Model of end-stage liver disease, Health-related quality of life.

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28-12-2023

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Naqvi IH, Salman M, Siddiqui S. Health-related Quality of Life in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis: Its Determination and Correlation with Relevant Factors . J Liaq Uni Med Health Sci [Internet]. 2023 Dec. 28 [cited 2024 Nov. 15];22(04):243-9. Available from: http://121.52.154.205/index.php/jlumhs/article/view/1131