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Quality of life, tuberculosis and treatment outcome; a case-control and nested cohort study

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dc.contributor.author Datta, Sumona
dc.contributor.author Gilman, Robert Hugh
dc.contributor.author Montoya, Rosario
dc.contributor.author Quevedo Cruz, Luz
dc.contributor.author Valencia, Teresa
dc.contributor.author Huff, Doug
dc.contributor.author Saunders, Matthew J.
dc.contributor.author Evans, Carlton Anthony William
dc.date.accessioned 2020-07-14T00:01:06Z
dc.date.available 2020-07-14T00:01:06Z
dc.date.issued 2020
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/8272
dc.description.abstract BACKGROUND: Global tuberculosis policy increasingly emphasises broad tuberculosis impacts and highlights the lack of evidence concerning tuberculosis-related quality of life (QOL). METHODS: Participants were recruited in 32 Peruvian communities 13/7/2016-24/2/2018 and followed-up until 8/11/2019. Inclusion criteria were: age ≥15 years for "patients" (n=1545) starting treatment for tuberculosis disease in health centres; "contacts" (n=3180) who shared a patient's household for ≥6 h·week(-1); and randomly-selected "controls" (n=277). The EUROHIS-QOL questionnaire quantified satisfaction with: QOL; health; energy; activities of daily living (ADL); self; relationships; money; and living place. FINDINGS: Newly-diagnosed tuberculosis was most strongly associated with lower QOL scores (p<0.001). Patients initially had lower QOL than controls for all EUROHIS-QOL questions (p≤0.01), especially concerning health, ADL and self. Lower initial QOL in patients predicted adverse treatment outcomes and scores <13-points had 4.2-times (95%CI=2.3,7.6) increased risk of death versus those with higher QOL scores (both p<0.001). Patient QOL was re-assessed 6 months later and for patients with successful treatment, QOL became similar to participants who never had tuberculosis, whereas patients who did not complete treatment continued to have low QOL (p<0.001). Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis was associated with lower QOL before and during treatment (both p<0.001). Contacts had lower QOL if they lived with a patient who had low QOL score (p<0.0001) or were a caregiver for the patient (p<0.001). CONCLUSIONS: Tuberculosis was associated with impaired psycho-socio-economic QOL which recovered with successful treatment. Low QOL scores predicted adverse treatment outcome. This brief EUROHIS-QOL 8-item questionnaire quantified the holistic needs of tuberculosis-affected people, potentially guiding patient-centred care. en_US
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher European Respiratory Society
dc.relation.ispartofseries European Respiratory Journal
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject Quality of life en_US
dc.subject tuberculosis en_US
dc.subject cohort study en_US
dc.title Quality of life, tuberculosis and treatment outcome; a case-control and nested cohort study en_US
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.00495-2019
dc.subject.ocde https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.02.07
dc.relation.issn 1399-3003


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