Study of quality of life of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis

Abstract

The pulmonary disease reduces all parameters of quality of life. Using a questionnaire of WHO QOL-100, there has been performed a study of parameters of quality of life in patients with fibro-cavernous and focal forms of pulmonary tuberculosis. Mean values of different areas of quality of life in patients with fibro-cavernous pulmonary tuberculosis were 2-3 times (p ≤ 0,01) lower than those in patients with focal tuberculosis. The patients in both groups suffered morally mostly. It has been revealed that tuberculous patients with a favorable clinical prognosis had a moderate decrease in the level of well-being and satisfaction with conditions of life. The analysis of the values of the exponent falsity according to the questionnaire by V. G. Norakidze (1975) has detected that all respondents answered the proposed questions quite truthfully, as values on the scale of falsity did not exceed 6 points. The results of the study of the parameters of the tuberculous patients' quality of life can be used for targeted psycho-social rehabilitation with regard to the form of the disease.