A STUDY OF QUALITY OF LIFE AND RELATED FACTORS ON PATIENTS WITH DEEP VENOUS THROMBOSIS

• Main Authors: Nguyen Thi Thanh Truc, 阮氏清竹
• Other Authors: Mei-Yao Ho
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7m3ju7

碩士 === 美和科技大學 === 護理系健康照護碩士班 === 107 === Study Aim:The study was conducted with the purpose of evaluating QoL score and clinical, paraclinical features that affect patients with DVT in lower limbs that were treated at hospital ofUniversity Medical Center HCMC. Literature Review: Deep venous thrombosis (DVT) is the illness with an annual fatality rate that are greater than that of AIDS, Breast Cancer and Traffic Accident combine (Rathbun, 2009). The Quality of life (QoL) of patients with DVT decline drastically. DVT affects patients in daily life aspect: Commuting, housework etc.,.Determine the factors that impact QoL could help to provide more information during treatment process to clinical doctors. Thus, I want to conduct this study to diversify the knowledge of QoL in DVT patients, with the aim to improve the QoL of DVT patients. Research methodology: The study uses the cross-section design to determine the QoL score of the DVT patients. The study selects 70 patients diagnosed with DVT in Thoracic – Vascular Surgery Department, University Medical Centerfrom 2016 to 2019 with the convenience sampling method. The study progress include: training colleagues on data collecting, pilot study, data analyzing; use of the SF-36 scoring method to evaluate the general QoL score and other QoL subcategories. Data collected would be upload and analyzed using Stata version 14.0 Results: General QoL mean score among DVT patients who have received treatment at University Medical Center is 65.2 with a standard deviation (SD) of 25.5. Mental health subgroup component QoL mean score is 72.4 ± 24.8, higher than Physical health subgroup component QoL mean score with only 60.5 ± 26.7. Factors proved that associated with components QoL mean score including: BMI, cast in plaster/recent leg injury. A negative linear correlation between age and QoL components mean score was found, which meant the higher age lead to the decrease of QoL (p <.001). Finally, we also found a trend that patients with PE risk score at high level have lower QoL means score. Conclusion:DVT patients have an average mean score of health related QoL. We found factors statistic significant associated with QoL including: age, BMI, cast in plaster/recent leg injury, PE risk score (p <.05). This finding suggest that nurse could play a bigger role such as: PE risk score evaluating, nutrition diet consultation, health risk behavior assessment during treatment procedure. Those would help to improve QoL score of DVT patients.