We have located links that may give you full text access.
Clinical Trial
Journal Article
Previous experience and quiality of life in patients with inflammatory bowel disease during relapse.
BACKGROUND: inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) permanently impairs patients' perception of their health-related quality of life(HRQoL). A variable that may influence HRQoL perception is the capacity to cope with the disease, which may be influenced by previous experiences. In this respect, it is unknown whether past experience with previous relapses of IBD influences HRQoL perception.
OBJECTIVE: the present study aims to determine whether HR-QoL at disease onset differs from that in repeated relapses of the disease.
PATIENTS AND METHOD: 120 patients with clinically active IBD according to the Rachmilewitz index for the 57 patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) or the Harvey-Bradshaw index for the 63 with Crohn's Disease (CD). Patients were divided into two different groups depending on whether the outbreak was at onset of the disease (42 patients) or corresponded to the fourth or more relapses(78 patients). Each patient completed three HRQoL questionnaires: two generic (EuroQol and the Psychological General Well-Being Index -PGWBI-) and one specific (Inflammatory Bowel Disease Questionnaire -IBDQ-).
RESULTS: patient characteristics (age, sex, smoking habit, activity index, hospital admission) were similar among the 4 groups of patients included. Time of evolution since diagnosis was significantly longer in the prolonged disease groups (median [percentiles 25-75]: (40 124-481 and 68 [36-120] for UC and CD, respectively) compared with the debut groups (1 [1-21 and 2 [1-2] for UC and CD, respectively) (p<0.001). IBDQ score did not differ between debut and prolonged disease groups either in UC or CD(4.0 vs 4.1 in CC and 4.3 us 4.3 in CD, p=ns). Absence of differences was also observed with the PGWBI (89 vs 78 in UC and 80.5 us 83 in CD, p=ns) and the EuroQol (tariff of 0.64 vs 0.57 in UC and 0.60 us 0.68 in CD, p=ns).
CONCLUSIONS: accumulated previous experience with IBD relapses does not seem to significantly affect HRQoL perception during relapses of the disease.
OBJECTIVE: the present study aims to determine whether HR-QoL at disease onset differs from that in repeated relapses of the disease.
PATIENTS AND METHOD: 120 patients with clinically active IBD according to the Rachmilewitz index for the 57 patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) or the Harvey-Bradshaw index for the 63 with Crohn's Disease (CD). Patients were divided into two different groups depending on whether the outbreak was at onset of the disease (42 patients) or corresponded to the fourth or more relapses(78 patients). Each patient completed three HRQoL questionnaires: two generic (EuroQol and the Psychological General Well-Being Index -PGWBI-) and one specific (Inflammatory Bowel Disease Questionnaire -IBDQ-).
RESULTS: patient characteristics (age, sex, smoking habit, activity index, hospital admission) were similar among the 4 groups of patients included. Time of evolution since diagnosis was significantly longer in the prolonged disease groups (median [percentiles 25-75]: (40 124-481 and 68 [36-120] for UC and CD, respectively) compared with the debut groups (1 [1-21 and 2 [1-2] for UC and CD, respectively) (p<0.001). IBDQ score did not differ between debut and prolonged disease groups either in UC or CD(4.0 vs 4.1 in CC and 4.3 us 4.3 in CD, p=ns). Absence of differences was also observed with the PGWBI (89 vs 78 in UC and 80.5 us 83 in CD, p=ns) and the EuroQol (tariff of 0.64 vs 0.57 in UC and 0.60 us 0.68 in CD, p=ns).
CONCLUSIONS: accumulated previous experience with IBD relapses does not seem to significantly affect HRQoL perception during relapses of the disease.
Full text links
Related Resources
Trending Papers
Challenges in Septic Shock: From New Hemodynamics to Blood Purification Therapies.Journal of Personalized Medicine 2024 Februrary 4
Molecular Targets of Novel Therapeutics for Diabetic Kidney Disease: A New Era of Nephroprotection.International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2024 April 4
Perioperative echocardiographic strain analysis: what anesthesiologists should know.Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia 2024 April 11
The 'Ten Commandments' for the 2023 European Society of Cardiology guidelines for the management of endocarditis.European Heart Journal 2024 April 18
Get seemless 1-tap access through your institution/university
For the best experience, use the Read mobile app
All material on this website is protected by copyright, Copyright © 1994-2024 by WebMD LLC.
This website also contains material copyrighted by 3rd parties.
By using this service, you agree to our terms of use and privacy policy.
Your Privacy Choices
You can now claim free CME credits for this literature searchClaim now
Get seemless 1-tap access through your institution/university
For the best experience, use the Read mobile app