Analysis on the quality of life of the hyperthyroidism patients

Author

Dong Liping ; Yang Lifen ; Du Ruihong ; Hu Zhihong

Author_Institution

Sch. of Public Health, Beihua Univ., Jilin, China

fYear

2011

fDate

19-22 Aug. 2011

Firstpage

791

Lastpage

794

Abstract

To understand the quality of life of hyperthyroidism patients and put forward to corresponding suggestions, Measure the quality of life of 342 hyperthyroidism patients and 197 healthy individuals as control was surveyed by adopting Short-Form 36-item survey (SF-36). The quality of life of hyperthyroidism patients was poorer than that of the general population in eight different fields scores of the SF-36 (p <; 0.001). As for physiologic health, physical functioning is the lowest for 35.94±24.58. As for mental health, mental health is the lowest for 38.10±13.26; As for the quality of life, there was statistical significance among hyperthyroidism patients of different age, sex, income, regions and dietary habits (P<;0.05). There is a low score on mental health of hyperthyroidism patients. Therefore, doctors should pay further attention to psychological states besides physical conditions in allusion to different age and sex and so on.

Keywords

biomedical measurement; diseases; psychology; hyperthyroidism patients; mental health; physical functioning; physiologic health; psychological states; quality of life; short form survey; Diseases; Educational institutions; Pain; Physiology; Psychology; Public healthcare; SF-36 scale; hyperthyroidism; quality of life;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Human Health and Biomedical Engineering (HHBE), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Jilin

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-723-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HHBE.2011.6028946

Filename

6028946